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Miss MaKV I'OKSIAN 1>AV. 

()., ::i.jrii|)ii 1(5. 



THE 



FORMAN GENEALOGY 



Descendants of Robert Forman of Kent Co., Maryland, 
who died in 1719-20; 



ALSO 



Descendants of Robert Forman of Long Island, New York, 

who died in 1671 : 
The Forman Family of Monmouth Co., New Jersey; 



TOGETHER WITH 



Notices of other Families of the Name of Forman. 



COMPILED PRINCIPALLY BY 

MISS ANNE SPOTTSWOOD DANDRIDGE 

FOR 

MRS. E. P. DISMUKES OF COLUMBUS, GA. 



CLEVELAND, OHIO: 

THE FORMAN-BASSETT-HATCH CO. 

1903. 



A^ ^ 






-5 



OF CONTENTS. 



^Descendants of Robert Fonnan of Keut Co., Maryland : gRAPh no. 

Robert Foriuau the Immigrant, Lis acquisitions of land, his will probated 1720. His son 

Robert's will. Order of his children. j 

Arthur Forman 1st, eldest son of Robert, will probated 1757 2 

Francis Forman 1st (1702-1758), son of Arthur 1st, abstract of will 3 

John, eldest son of Francis 1st (d. 1785); abstracts of his will, and of the wills of Henrietta 

his widow, and of Alice their daughter 4 

Sweatnam Forman of "Royston," Q. A. Co. (d. 1807), son of John 5 

Arthur Forman 2nd, second son of Francis 1st, d. intestate 1785, abstract of inventory, will 

of Mary his widow, d. 1817.. g 

William, second son of Arthur 2d, sketch of his life 7 

Jesse Forman, son of William, and Dr. S. E. Forman of Baltimore, grandson of Jesse Forman 8 
Francis Forman 2nd (1773-1857), son of William, sketch of his life. His will ; the will of 

his widow; inscription on tombstones o 

Arthur Immel Forman (1807-1867), eldest son of Francis 2nd, sketch of his life. Ancestry 
of his wife, Mary Ann Booth of Virginia. Civil War reminiscences of his son. Dr. 

William Booth Forman of Florida (Confederate Army) ' jO 

Mrs. Anne E. (Forman) Dismukes, daughter of Arthur Immel Forman H 

Mrs. Anne E. (Forman) Jones, daughter of Francis Forman 2nd 12 

Mrs. Caroline (Forman) Howard, daughter of Francis Forman 2nd I3 

William Raymond Forman, son of Francis Forman 2nd I4 

Arthur Thomas Forman, son of William Raymond Forman _ I5 

Mrs. Mary Jane (Forman) Vickars, daughter of Francis Forman 2nd 16 

Table of Descent 

Extracts from Church Registers, from other Records, etc.. Ig j^ 32 

Wills recorded in Annapolis 

~~~~~~ ------ ---.__ _--_____ ^y 

Rev. John Forman (1773-1840) 20 

Letters of Administration recorded in Baltimore 21 

Wills recorded in Baltimore 

Abstracts of some Baltimore wills 00 * 0-7 

Pedigrees from same „„ , „« 

' — ^8 and 29 

Items from Baltimore newspapers __ o/> 

Wills recorded in Centreville, Md. „, 

Admin istration accounts from Centreville 09 



CON TENTS— Continued . 

PARAGRAPH NO. 
35 

SwKATN AM Family— Genealogy of. - - 

Will of Sweatuaiu Burn, etc --- - "• 

The Family of Hon. E. E. Farman of Warsaw, New York. ^'^ 

Descendants of Robert Forniau of Long Island : 

, . .... 38 

Introduction -- 

The English Genealogy - - - 39 to 41 

Robert Fornian the Immigrant, his will, etc -- 

An 

Moses, sou of Robert - - 

44 
Samuel, son of Robert - --- 

Aaron, sou of Robert, and his sons '^'^' •*"' '*' 

Samuel Forman. son of Aaron, his commission as High Sheriff of Monmouth County, New 

Jersey -- - - — " 

49 
Extracts from New Jersey Archives 

The children of High SherifE Samuel Forman - ^^ 

Judge Jonathan Forman (d. 1762), second son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman of Mon- 
mouth Co., N. J., and his descendants - ^^ *^° ^^ 

Samuel Forman of Middletown Point, eldest sou of Judge Jonathan 53 

Gen. Jonathan Forman, eldest sou of Samuel of Middletown Point; Governor Horatio Sey- 

mour of New York, aud other descendants of Gen. Jonathan Forman 54 

Philip Freneau, son-in-law of Samuel Forman of Middletown Point 55 

56 
Major Samuel S. Forman. 

Peter Forman, second son of Judge Jonathan, and his descendants 57 to 69 

Garrett Forman and descendants - °^ '° 

Judge William P. Forman -- ^^ 

Jonathan Clayton Forman of Cleveland, Ohio --- 

Sheriff David Forman, youngest son of Judge Jonathan, and his descendants 70 to 74 

74 
Tunis Forman - ' 

Aaron Forman (d. 1742), third .son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman of Monmouth, and 

his descendants, William Henry Forman of New York City aud others 75 

Captain John Forman (d. 1748), fourth son of High Sheriff Samuel Formau, and his 

descendants. Col. Samuel Forman of the Revolution. '6 

Joseph Forman (d. 1775), fifth son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman and his descendant8.77 to 102 

Joseph Forman 2d, eldest son of Joseph ..- ' 



80 

CI IV II ^£> C*LIV» J »J *•* lUUliw-'J" J-"!" _----. ------ ------ .-- 

Richard Howell Forman --- - 



The Formau family at Natchez and in Missis.sippi 

.. 87 



89 
Stephen Samuel Forman.. - -- 

Ezekiel Forman, second son of Joseph 1st -- 

Will of Thomas Marsh. -- ^^ 

95 



Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman of " Rose Hill," Cecil Co., Md - 

Col. Joseph Formau of Queen Anne's Co. - 



CONTENTS— Continued. 

PARAGRAPH NO. 

Major Ezekiel Foniiau of " Cloverfields," Q. A. Co 

Ezekiel Marsh Foriuau of Centreville .. 

Hon. Ezekiel F. Chambers 

Gen. David Fornian of the Revolution 

Ezekiel FoRMAN of Upper Freelu.ld, Monmouth Co.. New Jersey (d. 1746J, sixth .son of 

High hhenff bumuel Fonnau of Monmouth, and his descendants 103 to 149 

Thonaas Forman, secoud son of Ezekiel of Upper Freehold, and his descendants in Kentucky ^ 

and elsewhere •' 

jQ^ 

Ezekiel Forraau of Mason Co., Ky., eldest son of Thomas IQg 

Thomas Seabrooke Forman of Louisville, Ky., eldest son of Ezekiel of Mason Co 107 

Col. James Brown Forman of the Union Army, son of Thomas Seabrooke Forman of 
Liouisville 

John Samuel Forman, third son of Ezekiel Forman of Mason Co., Ky HO 

Rev. Ezekiel Fonnan, D. D., of Kentucky, son of Ezekiel Forman of Mason Co.... ... . 116 

Benjamin Rice Fonnan of New Orleans, son of Rev. Ezekiel Fonnan, D. D 117 

Thomas Throckmorton Forman of Lexington, Ky., son of Rev. Dr. Ezekiel Forman 118 

Rev. Charles William Fonnan of Lahore, India, sou of Ezekiel Fonnan of Mason Co., Ky 119 

Whiteman W. Forman of Paris, Ky., son of Ezekiel Forman of Mason Co '..... 121 

Joseph Forman of Mason Co., Ky., sou of Thomas j^^ 

Hou. George Lewis Formau of Mason Co., Ky., son of Joseph. 130 

Lieutenant San.uel Tebbs Forn.-,n of the Confederate Army, son of Hou. Ge... L. Forman'. 131 

Samuel Fonnan of Ma.?on Co., Ky., son of Thomas jgg 

Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman of Mason Co., Ky., sou of Samuel 136 

Dr. Aaron Forman of Hunterdon Co., N. J., tlnrd .son of Ezekiel of Upper FreehohirMon- 

mouth Co.,— his sons, and their descendants jjg ^,^ j^g 

Ezekiel Forman, fourth son of Ezekiel Formau of Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co N J " 149 
pEscENDANTS of Robert Fonuan of Long Island, in Westchester and Tioga Counties N Y in 

Calitornia, Canada, and elsewhere 

pTHER Families whose connection with the foregoing has not been traced 161 to 153 

Judge Joshua Forman, the founder of Syracuse-sketch of his life, etc 151 

Aaron Formau, Revolutionary Soldier from Virginia. ._ 

Hon. William S. Formau of Illinois ... 

Rev. Aaron Parker Forman 



The Fonmin family of St. Clair Co., Ala., descended from Samuel Formau of Halifax Co., 



152 
152 
152 



N.C. __ 

Extracts from Annals of Newtown, Long Island. 



153 
154 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Page 

Rose Hill ...Froutispiecc 

Francis Eagle Fornian - 1^ 

Samuel Eagle Foriuau, A. M., Ph. D 19 

Frauds Foriuau -^ 

Mrs. Aune E. (Imniel) Foriuau 23 

Arthur Immel Formau -- 27 

Residence of Arthur I. Foriiiaii 29 

Booth Coat-of-Arnis - 30 

Mrs. Mary A. (Booth) Formau 30 

William Booth --. - --- 32 

"Leiuster," Nottoway Co., Virginia 34 

Major William Fitzgerald 34 

Mrs. Sarah (Epes) Fitzgerald 34 

Dr. William Booth Formau 37 

Mrs. Elisha Paul Dismukes 41 

E. Paul Dismukes, Jr_ 42 

Childreu of E. P. Di.=niukes, Jr 42 

Robert Ernest Dismukes 42 

The Teuneut Parsonage 75 

Mrs. Eleanor Formau Hankiuson 81 

Ebenezer Forman 82 

Garrett Fornian. 85 



Taoe 

Mrs. K.-thtr 1\>: man Cadinu.<- .-- -- 86 

Williiiui P. Fonuau 89 

Samuel William Formau - 91 

Jonathan Clayton Formau 91 

Samuel William Formau, 2d- 91 

General Thomas Marsh Formau 105 

General David Formau - 112 

Colonel James Brown Formau 117 

Rev. Charles William Formau 123 

Lieut. Samuel Tebbs Formau - 127 

William Forman - 130 

Judge Joshua Forman. 135 

Mrs. Elizabeth Fonuau Buckelew. 140 

Fransincliy Fornian - - 140 

Mrs. Catharine Formau Way. -140 

Emma Francis Way. -- 140 

Jonathan Forman — 144 

John Clayton Formau 144 

Mary Jane Forman 144 

Jonathan Claytou Formau, Jr 152 

Elizabeth Mary Formau 152 

Residence of Jonathan Claytou Formau 152 



INDEX TO APPENDIXES. 

PAGE. 

Booth Family, further information, Appendi.K A. --- --- 14o 

Wyckoff Family, Appendix B -. -- ^^'' 

Jonathan Forman, of Freehold, N. J., Appendix C - 14^ 

Hamilton Forman, Appendix D - 

George V. Formau, Appendix D - -- - 

Justus Miles Forman, Appendix E. --- 1'^ 

14 

Robert Henry Forman, Appendix F -- 

Hon. William S. Forman, of East St. Louis, Appendix G 149 

Jacob Forman, of Westchester County, N. Y., Appendix H -- -- 150 



PREFACE. 



At the beginning of the researches made by Miss Anne Spottswood Dandridge 
on the genealogy of the Forman family in Maryland, it was hoped that a common 
ancestor for all persons of the name could be found. This hope is as yet unfulfilled, 
but it has nevertheless been thought best to include in the book not only the 
descendants of Robert Forman, who died in 1719-20, but also another family whose 
ancestor came to Maryland from Monmouth Co., New Jersey, later in the same cen- 
tury—the eighteenth. Much information had been collected regarding the New 
Jersey family before it appeared that the connection, if any, was remoter than at 
first supposed, and a good deal has been since added relating to other branches of 
the New Jersey family whose earliest ancestor in America, also named Robert For- 
man, died in Long Island in 1671. There will also be found in these pages notices 
of other families of the name whose connection with the two mentioned is as yet 
untraced. 

It is proper to state that, while the book has been principally compiled by 
Miss Dandridge, much additional matter has been added by various contributors, to 
all of whom I desire to renew the expression of my thanks. The following have been 
especially helpful in rendering assistance: 

Mrs. Josephine Forman Rodgers of Washington, D. C, Hon. E. E. Farman of 
Warsaw, N. Y., Mr. J. Clayton Eorman of Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. W. B. Forman of 
Florida, Mr. Charles Forman of New Orleans, La., and Hon. E. P. Dismukes of 
Columbus, Ga., and others whose names will be mentioned in the body of the work. 

Additional information and corrections will be welcomed. 
1515 Third Avenue, A. E. F. Dismukes. 

Columbus, Ga. (Mrs. E. P. Dismukes.) 



THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 



Genealogy of the Forman Family of Maryland— Descended from 

Robert Forman who died in 1720. 



1. From the Index of Early Settlers in the Land ofBce at Annapolis, Mary- 
land, Liber 18, folio 94, it appears that Robert Forman arrived in Maryland in the 
year 1674. Whether he came directly from England or was an offshoot of a family 
already settled in the colonies — perhaps of the family which had settled in Long 
Island a generation before, is unknown. That such a removal would not be singular 
is shown by the case of Augustine Herman who came from New Amsterdam, made 
the famous map and founded Bohemia Manor in Maryland. 

Robert Forman became the owner of "Lewstern," a tract of land of 200 acres 
on the north side of the Chester River, surveyed for him on October 12, 1704 (Rent 
Roll of Kent Co. page 65, MS in Md. Hist. Socy.), and granted to him, according to 
the deed to Calder hereafter to be mentioned, by letters patent of the Lord Pro- 
prietory, on October 10, 1707. His will (at Annapolis) shows that he also owned 
the upper part of " Blackhall's Hermitage," 100 acres, also on Chester River. In 
1707 it appears (Rent Roll of Kent Co. page 59) that 100 acres of "Blackhall's 
Hermitage" was "possest" by Edward Eorman, whose relationship to Robert is 
unknown. From Edward it seems to have passed to Robert. Nothing more is known 
of Robert's life except what may be learned from the following : 

" Whereas There hath been Eight hundred twenty-five thousand Nyne hun- 
Idred Seventy Nyne pounds of Tobacco Expended Layd out & disbursed by several 
of the Inhabitants of this Province in the late Expedicon against the Nanticoke 
Indians and other the necessary Charges of this province which hath been examined 
stated and allowed by the upper and lower houses of this present General Assembly 
To the intent therefore That the same may be satisfied and paid to these persons to 
whom the same is due Bee itt Enacted by the Right Hont-'e the Lord Proprietary 
by and with the advice of this present General Assembly and the Authority of the 
bame That the said Eight hundred twenty five thousand Nyne Hundred Seventy 
Nyne pounds of Tobacco be paid in the manner & form as is hereafter Expressed by 
m Equal Assessment uppon the persons & Estates of the Inhabitants of this Province 
:-\nd be payd to the severall persons to whome the same is due as aforesaid Any Law 
Statute Custome or vseage to the Contrary thereof Notwithstanding." 



,^^) THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Then follow the amounts to be paid to the persons named, among whom Robert 
Foreman of Kent County is to be paid ;W0 lbs 

rProcednre of the Assembly of Maryland. October, Novembei, 1678 ) 
a Sb t Forman's will, which is c-xtant, and which we subjon., '- -me . 
n aV .., To those who are at all acquainted with old records it is well 

generally due to the carelessness or ignorance oi the clerk. 

WILL OF ROBERT FORMAN OF KKNT CO., MD.' 

In the name of God Amen. I Robert Foreman being sick and weak in body 
but of sound ^nd perfect memory praised be to God for his mercy. Do make this my 
list will and Testament, in manner and form as iolU.weth. , , , ,. h« 

ml First I bequeath my soul to God AUniight who gave it and body to be 
decently hurried at the direction of my Executor hereafter named. 

Secondly, I will that my debts be oneslly paid. 

ThW y 1 will that the Dwelling plantation I now live up..n shall be for he 
use of m loviiig wife Marv Foreman during her life for to live upon ior her and her 
^Idr^s maintenance but in Case She after should marie & be renounced from t lu. 
pJantation that then it shall be Lett yearly rent for the good of my children b...n 

""^ *''' Fmi^thlv I give to mv son Robert Foreman fifty acrers of Land called Luse- 
tren, be-;; attoi.T.act\.f two hundred acrers at U^^ North East End .>f the 
Trict and the rest of my three youngest children as followetU. 

rnhly, Igive to my youngest son Charles Foreman Fifty acres of Land w.tl 

tbe V^^^J^l ^^^ ,,, Wm. Foreman fifty acres of Land adjacent to the 
second t--L ^ ^_^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^.^^^^ ^^^.^^ ^, 3,. Tract t 

them their heirs & afd & assignds for ever. 

8th,ly, I give to my youngest Daughter Eliz^. Foreman two cows and calves 
niid sow <fe piffRS young maie & two ewes. .„ ^, , ..a 

9thly f give to my son Aurther Foreman the plantation with the hunded 
acres of Land that he lives upon called the Upper part of Blackhalls hermitage, his ^ 

heirs an assignis forever. 

lOthly I give to my Daughter A. Mildratt Hendrickson one shilling. 

llthlv I give to my Daughter Mary Fanning one shilling. 

12thly I give to my loving wife Mary Foreman all the rest of my lemporal 

^'*'*' And in Case that any of my four youngest Children should Dye without heirs j 
that then the Land be Equally Divided among the rest f the surviving of the four 
& my Daughter Eliza then to have an Equal part of said Land with the rest of the 
survivors. 

•Annapolis Records T. B. 1-311. 



1 



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THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 11 

And lastly I constitute my well beloved wife Mary Foreman and my Son 
Aurther Foreman my sole Executors of this my Will and Testament as witness my 
hand & Seal the Twenty Seventh day of Sept Anno Dom 1711. 

Robert Foreman (Seal) 
Signed Sealed &, Diliverd before us 
Thos Winn 
Michael Haskett 

This Day Micheal Haskett & Thos. Winn came before me James Harris D. 
Conty of s<i County & made oath upon the Holy Evangelist that they Saw ye above 
Robert Foreman signe, Seale publish &, declare the above will to be his last will «fc 
Testament & that he was of sound sense &, perfect Memory 

Sworn this 15th day of March 1719 Jas. Harris D. Conty. 

Note : — Although as a rule it has been attempted in this work to finish with 
each branch before taking up the next younger, we now give the will of the second 
son, a little out of the proper order, since the line is not carried further. 



WILL OF ROBT. FOREMAN, (JUNIOR).' 

" I Robert Foreman of Kent County in the province of Maryland 

I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth, my dearly beloved wife, all my stock of horses, 
cattle and hogs, together with all my household goods and movables. 

I give to my well beloved son, Walter Foreman, all and singular the lands, 
messuages and tenements to him and his heirs forever. . . . 

Exrs. wife Elizabeth and son Walter. 



prob. July 27, 1762. Robt. Foreman's K ; seal 



The order in which Robert Forman's children were born is not altogether cer- 
tain, and is obtained partly from the will and partly from a deed from Robert's 
oldest son Arthur, another son John and his wife, and Elizabeth their sister and 
her husband Richard Chaddock, by which they all convey to James Calder, attorney 
at law of '. hestertown, Md., the portion of the Lewstern estate which had been de- 
vised by the will to William and John. The deed recites that William died after 
his father without issue, and the will is attested by only two witnesses ; the lands 
presumably did not pass thereby, and estate in fee descended to Arthur as heir at 
law of Robert. Arthur therefore became a party to the deed for the benefit of the 
others. The price paid was twenty pounds Maryland currency to John and his wife 
and Elizabeth and her husband, Arthur receiving the nominal sura of five shillings. 
This deed is dated February 8, 1733, and is recorded in Liber J. S. No. 16, folio 432 
etc. (A Land Record for Kent Co., Md.). 

Arthur was clearly the eldest son. That the daughters Mildred and Mary, 
who were maiTied at the time of the will, were older than their brother Robert is 



•Wills, Chestertown, Kent Co., Md. 



v 



12 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

uncertain, but since Robert the younger seems to have been nt)t yet pi'ovided with 
an establishment of liis own as his eldest brother had been, it is presumed his mar- 
ried sisters were older than he — they may, indeed, have been older than Arthur. 
As the three youngest children are named as Charles, William and John, and 
Charles is stated to be tlie youngest, the pi'opei' order would seem to be — John, Wil- 
liam, and Charles. Tlie proper place of Elizabeth, tlie youngest daughter, is as 
difficult to determine as the places of her sisters. She may be assigned however to 
the place between Robert and John. 

The family of Robert, thus conjecturally arranged, is as follows : 

Robert Fouman, d. 1719-20. 
m. Mary (or Margaret ) 

1, Arthur Forman, d. 1757 

m. 1st Mary Reed 

m. i?nd Elizabeth , who survived him. 

2 

2, Mildred Forman, m. Ht'iidrickson. 

2 

3, Mary Forman, m. Fanning. 

2 

4, Robert Forman. d. 17(>1* 

m. Elizabeth , son: Walter Forman. 

2 

5, Elizabeth Forman, m. Richard Chaddock, Planter, of Kent Co. 

2 

6, John Forman. m. Mary . 

2 

7, William Fiirnian, d. witliout issue. 

2 

8, Charles Forman. 

2. Arthur Forman, son of Robert, owned a plantation of lUO acres called 
the upper part of Blackiiall's Hermitage, devised to him by his father's will, lie 
was church warden in 1723 of St. Paul's parish in Kent Co. (Old Kent, p. 353). 

2 

Arthur Forman 

m. 1st May 13. 1700, Mary Reed, buried May 10, 1713. 
I (Rctrister of St. Paul's Parish pages 27 L etc.) 

^ 3 

1, Francis Forman, b. Oct. 28, 1702, d. 1758 

m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Sweatnam. 

3 

2, Arthur Forman, b. Nov. 3, 1700. 

3 

3, Mary Forman, 1). June 19, 1711. 

ra. 2nd Elizabeth , who survived her husband. 

' 1 3 

4, Robert Forman, b. Jany. 12, 1723. 



/ 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 13 

WILL OF ARTHUR FORMAN.» 

" I, Arthur Forman of Kent County "...'• To wife Elizabeth all per- 
sonal estate." ..." To my son Francis my dwelling plantation, 100 a." . . . 
Jan. 26, 1756. Prob. Nov. 7, 1757. 



3 

3. Francis Forman, of Queen Anne's Co., Md. Born October 28, 1702, died 
1758. (Will prob. Feb. 18, 1758. Lib. W. H. N. fol. 146, Q. A. Rec.) Owner of 
land in Kent Co. " Blackhall's Hermitage;" and land in Queen Anne's Co., "Roys- 
ton" and "Fishingham" (the latter estates in right of his wife.) 

m. (prior to 1731) Elizabeth Sweatnam, daughter of John, son of Richard 
Sweatnam of "Royston." By will, 1697, Richard Sweatnam devised 
"Royston," then 1200 acres, to his son John, from whom it was inherited 
by John's two daughters, Elizabeth and Hannah. In 1731 mutual deeds 
to "Royston"" etc., were signed by Elizabeth and her husband, Francis 
Forman, and Hannah and her husband. Matthew Dockery. 
(Deed Oct. 21, 1731. Lib. R. T. No. A., fol. 85.101.) 

y^ 

9 children 

3 

Francis Forman, son of Arthur and Mary (Reed) Forman, b. Oct. 28, 1702, 
d. 1758. 

m. before 1731 Elizabeth Sweatnam, dau. of Capt. John Sweatnam: 
I (See account of Sweatnam family to be given later.) 

I 4 4 

1, John Forman, d. 1785. 5, Francis Forman. 

m. Henrietta — , d. 1791. 4 

4 6, Anne Forman. 

2, Mary Forman. 4 

m. William Cockrall. . 7, Rebecca Forman. 

4 4 

3, Arthur Forman, d. 1785. - 8, Hambleton Forman. 

m. Mary . 4 

4 9, James Forman. 

4, Elizabeth Forman. 



WILL OF FRANCIS FORMAN.^ 

I, Francis Forman, being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing 
mind, <fec. . . . 

To my son Arthur Foreman and his heirs one hundred acres of Land in Kent 
County known by the name of Blackhalls Hermitage . . . and failing issue from 
my son Arthur Foreman I give aforeL..:d hundred acres to my son, Francis Foreman, 
and failing Francis heirs I give it to ray son Hambleton Foreman and failing heirs 



IB. T. 2,414 iAnnapV ' 7 acres. 

^WiLLS Queen Ann^. „ . W. H. N. 1.— This will is recorded in Annapolis, B. T. 2, 4.33; by a clerical error 
the name js there given "Fresman " in the beginning of the paper. It is signed Foreman. 



14 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

from his body to my son James Foreman. ... To son Arthur Foreman my best 
bed and furniture (for it) . . . To daughter Mary Foreman ray next best bed 
and furniture ... to daugliter Elizabeth Foreman the next best bed (<fec) to 
her sister Mary's. 

All remainder t)f Personall estate to be equally Divided amongst my children 

Mary, Arthur, Elizabeth, Francis, Anne, Rebecca, Hambleton and James . . . 

my four sons and four daughters having before given a legacy to my eldest son, 

John. ... I appoint John Small Ex'r. Francis (sic). 

Arthur Forman. Edward Cinipper. 

Arthur Chrisfield. prob. Feb. 13, 1758. 

4 

4. John Forman, son of Francis and Elizabeth (Sweatnam) Forman, d. 1785. 
m. Henrietta , d. 1791. 

1, Ann Forman, m. Smith. 

5 



, ., , ,, i of Delaware, cousins, 

m. 2nd Elizabeth Kent ) 



2, Sweatnam Forman, m. 1st Elizabeth Kent 

m. 2nd Elizabeth Kent 
m. 3d Hannah Wroth. 

5 

3, 'Jolin Forman, m. Sarah ; no children. 

d. 1798. (Will prob. March 31, 1798.) 

4, William Francis Forman, d. unm. 

5, Margaret Forman, m. Cox, 1 dau., Margaret Cox. 

«, Alice (Alsey) Forman, Will prob. Feb. 19, 1793. 



WILL OF JOHN F0RMAN.2 

I, John Foreman, of Queen Anne's Co. . . . Imprimis I give unto my 
son Sweatnam Foreman one negro boy named Jacob to him and his heirs forever. 

Item. To my son John Foreman two negro boys, Simon and Cleynus. . . 

Item. I give unto my son William Francis Foreman two negro boys Davis 
and Phill. 

Item. After my just debts and funeral expenses be paid I give all the rest 
of my negroes and all my other personal estate to my beloved wife, Henriette and 
her Heirs, reposing in her the highest Confidence that from the profits thereof she 
will support and maintain my daughter Alice who is troubled with a Parolitic Com- 
plaint. . . . Lastly, I do hereby appoint my wife sole Executrix. . . . 
In witness whereof (etc.) this 4th Day of November Anno Domini 1782. 

Witnesses: 



_,, ^^ , John Foreman. ; Seal. 

Thos. Hackett, 



Henry Foreman, 21st of May 1785. Then came Henrietta 

John Brown. Foreman and made oath, (etc.) 



'Owned 150 acres of Royston ; Exr. of Henrietta Forman, his mother. ^Queen . ine's Co. Wills T. W. 1. 260. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 15 

Inventory of John Forman' late of Queen Anne's County . , . June 18, 
1785. Arat. 797 L. 10, 6. next of Kin. Sweatnam Forman. Sept. 10, 1785. Then 
came Henrita Executor, (etc.). 



ABSTRACT OF WILL OF MRS. HENRIETTA FORMAN, WIDOW 

OF JOHN F0RMAN.2 

I, Hennerite Forman. . . . To Daughter Alcey, one negro named Stephen, 
one negro woman named Deb. . . . negro boy Joe and negro girl Hagar, and 
furniture. 

Item. After my just debts and funeral Expenses are paid I give all the rest 
of my estate to be equally divided between my two sons, Jolm Forman and William 
Francis Forman. 

Ex'r Son John ... 29 July 1786. 

prob. Oct. 22, 1791. Henrietta Forman. i Seal '; 

We John Forman,^ \ 

Sweatnam Forman, >■ are bound . . . 1500 pounds. 

Thomas Young j cur. money . . . Oct. 22, 1791. 

John Forman (Ex'r of Will of Henrietta Forman) Swetnam Forman, Thomas 
Young. 

ABSTRACT OF WILL OF ALICE FORMAN.^ 

" L Alsey Foreman ... To bro. John negro Stephen and Debby. To 
my bro. William Foreman my negro boy named Joe, he being fourteen years of age. 
. . . To my niece Margaret Cox my trunk and all my wearing apparel. . . . 

Ex'r my brother John. 

Sept. 29, 1792. Prob. Feb. 19, 1793." 

We Henrietta Forman,' \ of Queen Anne's Co., are held (&c.) in sum 

Thomas Hackett, v of 3000 pounds cur. money. . . . 
Swetnam Forman. j May 31, 1785. 

Henrietta Forman, 
Thomas Hackett, 
Swetman Forman. 

John Forman, son of Francis and Elizabeth (Sweatnam) Forman, d. 1785. 
m. Henrietta, d. 1791. 



H 



5 

5. Sweatnam Fonnan, of "Roystou." Queen Anne's Co,, b. ; d. 1807. 

(Adm. Bond signed by Jesse Forman. Jan. 11, 1808. W. H. N. 1804-1810, foL 138.) 



m. 1st Elizabeth Kent, ) j- -n , 
m. 2nd Elizabeth Kent, j ^^ ^^^'^ 



cousins. 



'Inv. R. W. 1784-86. 1. p. 127. ^wuig Queen Anne's Co. Lib. S. C. 7 fol. 321. 'Admn. Bonds S. C. 1790-92. 
p. 64, Queen Anne's Rec. ^Wills Queen Anne's Co. R. W. 1. p. ^\dmn. Bond S. C. 384. 



16 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

m. 3rd Haiinali Wroth, dau. of Kinwin Wroth. 

'Maria Forman, m. Dr. David Quimby of Queen Anne's Co. 

H 1 

Caroline, Henrietta. 

6 

'Emaliue Forman, m. 1st Dr. David Quimby, her bro.-in-law. 



h 



David Quimby, died in childhood. 

6 m. 2nd Thomas Reynolds. 
Caroline Forman, d. in childhood. 

6 

'Jesse (named in a Deed from his father, 1799). 

6 

'John Sweatnam Forman, m. s. p. Susan Skinner. 

6 

^Louisa Forman, m. 1st Jonathan Cooper. 

I , 

s. p. m. L'lid William Wroth, her cousin. I 

7 I 

''Martha Amanda Cooper, m. Kobt. Wilson, of Queen Anne s Co. 

I 

7 A 

John William Fletcher Cooper, m. Julia Foster. 

7 

Mary Louisa Cooper, m. Dr. Wm. H. Nonis (Fred'k Co.) 

4 

6. * Arthur Forman m. Mary 

b d. 1785 I b d . 1817. (Will Prob. Apr 



(Inventory filed by 
Marv, Adm'x May 13, 1785 
K. W. 1784-86. Fol. 30). 



18, 1817. Lib. T. C. 
E. 1. Fol. 77. Exr. 
her son William, of 
whom she says " I 
have entire confidence 
5 I in him.") 

1, Jesse Forman, (named in Deed from Sweatnam to Mary as "eldest son of 

Arthur and Mary.") 

5 

2, William Forman m. Mary Raymond of Del. 

5 

3, Elizabeth Forman. 

5 

4, Mary Forman. 



•Sweatnam deeds personal property to these four children, 1799. S. T. W. 215-216, 217-227. 

-She is named in a Deed (of salej " Louisiana or Louisa." S. T. W. 6, 338. 

'Mrs. Wilson gave, Jan. 26, 1901, the names of the descendants of Sweatnam Forman to Mrs. Dismukes. 

^Second son of Francis and Elizabeth (Sweatnam) Forman. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 17 

INVENTORY.! 

An Inventory of all and singular the Goods and Chattels of Arthur Forman 

late of Queen Anne Co appraised . . This 13th day of May, 1785. 

Wearing apparel (£) 7.10.0 

Cash 78. 0.0 

6 silver teaspoons 15.0 

1 Pr. Gold sleeve buttons 15.0 

1 Pr. old silver shoe buckles 7.6 

(Negroes, farming implements, stock, "3 spinning wheels," 
&c., &c.) 



Amt. £925. 18. 5. 



Mary Forman, Adm'n of Arthur Forman." 



We Mary Forman,^ | 

Edward Wright, \ are bound &c. . . . 3000 pounds 
John Hackett. ) cur. money. 

Mary Forman Admx. of Arthur Forman, late of Queen Anne's Co. 

(Signed) Mary Forman, '- -■-■ 

E. Wright, 
Jno. Hackett. 



WILL OF MRS. MARY FORMAN, WIDOW OF ARTHUR FORMAN.^ 

I, Maiy Forman, of Queen Anne's Co., being sick and weak but of sound and 
iisposing mind, (<fec.) 

I give and devise to my daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, my half of the farm 
purchased jointly by my son William and Myself, lying near Double Creek, the 
egal title of said farm is at present in my son William but I have entire confidence 
n him and request that he will as soon as it can conveniently be done have the 
JLand divided into two equal parts and convey one half of the farm to my daughters 
Elizabeth and Mary. . . . (To Elizabeth and Mary are left personal property, 
urniture, silver, <fec.) 

To my son William, my negro women, Becca and Matilda . . . the riding 
lorse, Lightfoot, and a bed and a sufficiency of bed furniture for it. . . . All 
he rest of estate to be equally divided among William, Elizabeth and Mary. . . . 
5x'r son William. 

November 10th, 1815. 

Mary Forman. 



iQueen Anne's Records. E. W. 1781-86. No. 1. p. 30. (Inventory.) ^Admn. BondB, B. S. C. 1774-86. 259. 
^Queen Anne's Records T. C. E. 1, p. 77. 



18 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

5 

7. William Forman, sou of Artlmr and Mary Forman. 
m. Mary Raymond of Delaware. 

*1, Jesse Forman, m. Margaret Eagle. 

' — n — n i V 

-Artlmr, Jesse, Fi-ancis E. 
d. 1830. 

2, Framcis Forman, m. 1806 Anne Elizabeth Immkl. 
b. 1773, d. 1857. I b. 1784, d. 1875. 

G A 

3, John Forman, m. Susan Anthony, s. p. 

6 

4, Raymond Forman, m. Letitia. 

I 

n 1 7 

Susan, Mary. 

G 

5, Mai-y Foniian, m. Mr. Thomas. 



6, Elizabetli Forman. m. Mr. Sutton. 



WILLIAM FORMAN. 

William Forman married Mary Raymond of Delaware 1765. He was the 

second sun of Artliur Forman and Mary . Their chihhen were as follows : 

'Jesse, -Francis, ^John, ^iaymond, 'Mary and "Elizabeth. There was a strong feeling in 
the states of New Jersey. Delaware and Maryland at this time against negro slavery. 
William called his childien around him and told them that the slaves and a large 
tract of land was theirs by inheritance, and they could take their choice, either to 
free their slaves or keep them in their service. A few of the family servants 1' 
whom he was attached, he would keep and would give them their freedom as they 
became self-sustaining. The rest of the negroes he divided between his sons. His 
■vvife — Mary Raymond— in her will gave to her daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, all 
of her property, which she inherited from her mother's estate, consisting of money 
and real estate. William Forman was an officer in Second Delaware Regiment 
during the Revolutionary War. Was promoted for bravery at the battle of Germai 
town, October 4th, 1777. 

6 

8. ^Jesse Forman, son of William and Mary (Raymond) Forman. 
m. Margaret Eagle. 
I 

r 7 

1, Arthur Forman m. Margaret Elbert. I 

I 

1, dau. m. Joseph Benson. 



II- 



'The names of the children of Wra. Forman and Mary Raymond are not found in records, but are given by 
Mrs. Wilson, a gr. dau. of Sweatiiam Forman (son of John, son of Francis.) -Chas. Price, Guardian of Arthur, 
Jesse and Francis. Q. A. E«c. ^Authority Mrs. Robert Wilson, Baltimore, January, 1901. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 19 



2, Francis Raymond Forman 

3, Virginia Formau m Farris. 

7 
2, Jesse Formau, d. in early manhood, 1830. 

7 
^3, Francis Eagle Forman 

m. 1st Hester A. Hall of Kent Co., Md. 



h 



1, Josephine Forman. 

m. 1st, Colonel Allen Johnston of Tennessee, 
m. 2nd, William Rodgers of Kent Island, Md. 

8 

2, Jesse Forman. 

m. in Tennessee, Amelia Ellen Decherd, dau. of Jonathan Decherd. 

8 

3, Susan Mann Forman. 

m. in Indiana, Alvin Lockwood. 

8 

4, James Francis Forman, d. unm. 
m. 2nd, Eliza J. Miller of Elkton, Md. 



S 



8 

5, Samuel Eagle Forman, Ph. D., gi-aduate of Dickinson College, Ph. D. 

1897, Johns-Hopkins University. Author of a work on Thomas 
Jefferson, "Philip Freneau as a Publicist,"' "Text Book on Civil 
Gov't," &c. 
m. Caroline Meredith of Baltimore. 

8 

6, Belle Forman. 

m. H. A. Kerchner. 



SAMUEL EAGLE FORMAN, Ph. D. 

Dr. Samuel Eagle Forman, son of Francis Eagle Forman by his second 
marriage with Eliza Jane Miller, was born April 29, 1858, in Brentsville, Virginia. 
Both his parents were natives of Maryland. He graduated at Dickinson College in 
1887 with the degree of A. B., and three years later took the degree of A. M. Later 
jhe took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, his 
subjects being History, Political Economy and Jurisprudence. He is the author of 
"First Lessons in Civics," "The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson," "The Life 
of Philip Freneau," and other works, and is at present engaged in authorship and 
in lecturing on educational topics. 



'Justices of the Peace, 1838, Kent Co Francis E. Forman. 

{Official List.) 



r^' 



20 THE FOR MAN GENEALOGY. 

6 

9. Francis Forman, b. Queen Anne's Co., Md., 1773, d. Nov. 23, 1857, buried 
in Baltimore, son of William and Mary (Raymond) Forman. 

He went into business in Hagerstown, Md., on April 7, 1796, the name of tlie 
new Arm, "Claggett tfe Forman," succeeding "John & Hezekiah Claggett." His name ' 
appears in the Baltimore Directory in 1810, the exact time of his removal to Balti 
more is unknown. 

m. Dec. 9, 1806, Anne Elizabeth Immel. (Notice of marriage in Baltimore 

papers Dec. 18, 1806.) 

7 

i; Arthur Immel Forman, b. 1807, d. Nov. 27, 1867. 

m. About 1836 Mary Ann Booth of "Shenstone," Nottoway Co., Va. 

7 

2, Anne Elizabeth Forman, b. Bait., Dec. 6, 1808, d. New Orleans, Feb. 16, 1864. 
m. Samuel Jones, Jr. (Banker), b. 1804, d. New Orleans, April 22, 1874. 

7 

3, Evelina Forman, b. Sept. 16, 1810, d. April 10, 1888. 
m. John Newton Brown (Banker), b. May 19, 1807, d. Jan'y 31, 1881— no 

children. 

7 

4, Caroline Forman. b. 1812. 
m. George W. Howard of Baltimore, b. 1813, d. 1888. 

7 

5, William Raymond Forman, b. Baltimore, 1817. 
m. 

Arthur Thomas Forman, admitted to bar in Baltimore. 

7 

6, Mary Jane Forman, b. June 20, 1813. 
m. Benjamin Albert Vickars, President of Marine Bank, Baltimore. (Sou 

of Capt. Joel Vickars and Ada Beck, son of Benjamin Vickars and 
Rachel Koberts, son of George Vickars and Lydia Tower, son of 
George Vickars, and Elizabeth Binney, son of George Vickars audi 
Lucy , son of George Vickars, d. 1679, and Rebecca Phipery.)i 

7 

7, Frances Keller Forman, d. in infancy. 



FRANCIS FORMAN. 



Francis Forman — second son of William and Mary Raymond Forman — was 
Jjorn about 1773. After receiving his portion of his father's estate, he moved to 
Hagerstown, Marylaud. He married Anne Elizabeth Immel 1806. They had seven 
children, which were as follows: 'Arthui-, -Anue Elizabeth, ''Evelina, ^Caroline, 
^William Raymond, ''Mary Jane, ^Frances Keller, who died in infancy. Francis 
Forman was an Episcopalian. A very serious difference arose in the church to 
which he belonged, and ended in the church closing its doors. 



I 



i 




Fkamis Fouman. 

n 77.',- 1 St I 

'r;il>fn :il IIk- ajir .,f Si 'l\-;,r-.. ill iS;;. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 21 

He afterwards united himself with the First Presbyterian Church in Balti- 
more, Md., and remained a good and consistent member of the church until his 
death in 1857. He was elected a "member of the committee" of the First Presby- 
terian Church in Baltimore 1836, and served until 1854, when ill health, with the 
infirmities of old age compelled him to resign. He was confined to his room for 
several years, and was always cheerful and happy, and was noted for his extreme 
politeness, and noble deeds of charity. Francis Forman served in the war of 1812. 
The Kecords, War Department, Washington City, D. C, show that Francis Forman 
enlisted in Captain John Beri-y's Company, 1st Maryland Regiment of Artillery. 
(Col. Harris) war 1812. His grand daughter Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismukes is 
a member of the National Society of the United States Daughters of the War of 
1812, through his services, is one of the Vice Presidents of the Georgia State 
Division, and a charter state member. She has in her possession a pair of very 
handsome old brass andirons, with shovel, tongs and holders all of brass, which 
descended to her through her father, as family relics for several generations, also 
two very quaint old bronze and brass candelabra, old heirlooms, and a suit of old 
colonial style solid mahogany furniture. In thinking of incidents in my father's 
(Arthur Forman) life; I well remember him telling his children that when he was 
a boy, he went one day into the cellar of his father's home, 18 South Eutaw St. in 
Baltimore, Md., and seeing a strange wretched looking negro, he was much frightened 
and ran screaming to his mother, who upon going into the cellar found an old family 
servant, who had been set free, sick and starved — the cook had taken him in and 
secreted him for a week. Father lost no time in having his family physician called 
and every attention was given to him, (old Uncle Bob as he was familiarly called). 
As soon as he recovered, suitable employment was found and he was cared for as 
long as he lived by his former master. The Mrs. Allison who is buried in the For- 
man cemetery was no relation, but a poor deaf woman and a friend of the family, who 
had no relatives, was given a home by my grandfather, Francis Forman, and sleeps 
in the same enclosure with the Forman family. He was known always as a good 
Christian, and whose hand was always dispensing charity. 

' " Married on Tuesday, the 9th instant, near Chambersburg, Penn., by the 
Rev. Mr. Miller, Mr. Francis Forman, merchant of this place, to Miss Ann Elizabeth 
Immel." (The same notice, same date of issue, was in " The American & Commercial 
Daily Advertiser.") 

Their oldest child, Arthur, was baptized in the Episcopal Church. 

'"Bap. Aug. 1st, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Francis and Ann Elizabeth 
Forman, born Dec. 6, 1808." 

^ "Evilina, Daughter of Francis and Ann Elizabeth Forman, born Sept. 16, 
1810." ' 

* " Aug. 23d, Mary Jane, daughter of Francis and Ann Elizabeth Forman, born 

June 20, 1813." 

^" March 10th, Francis Keller, son of Francis and Ann Elizabeth Forman, 
born Oct. 21. 1814." 



'"Federal Gazette and Baltimore Daily Advertiser."— Dec. 18, 1806. -Reg. of First Presbyterian Church, 
, Baltimore. P. 147. ^P. 149. ^P. 154. '^P. 157. 



22 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

' FRANCIS FORMAN'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. 

Be it kuuwu that I, Francis Formau, of the city of Baltimore, in the state of 
Maryland, being in health and of a sound disposing raiud, memory and understand- 
ing, but considering the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of the time thereof, 
do make and publish this as my last Will and Testament in manner following, that 
is to say: I order and direct all my just debts and funeral expenses to be fully 
satisfied and paid out of my estate. Item — I devise and bequeath unto my son-in- 
law, Geo. N. Howard and to my son William R. Formau and the survivor of them 
and the Executors and Administrators of the survivor, my dwelling house and lot 
of ground and i)remises on the west side of Eutaw street in said city, subject to the 
payment of the yearly rent of sixteen dollars and two-thirds of a dollar. In trust 
and special confidence however for the uses and purposes following, and to and for 
no other trust or purpose whatever, that is to say : 

First. In trust that my dear wife. Aim Elizabeth Formau, during the residue 
of her natural life, be permitted and suffered to hold, use, occupy, possess and enjoy 
the said house and lot of ground and premises, and the rents, issues and profits 
thereof, after payment of ground rent, taxes and other incidental charges, to receive 
take and apply to her sole and separate use and benefit. 

Second. In trust from and immediately after the decease of my said dear 
wife, if my daughter, Ann E. Jones, shotild survive her, that the said Ann E. Jones 
be permitted and suffered to have, hold, possess and enjoy the said house and lot of 
ground and premises and to receive and take the rents, issues and profits thei'eof , for 
her sole and separate use and benefit, or otherwise, at her option, to sell and dispose 
of the same property and premises by deed in her life time and the avails or pro- 
ceeds to take and receive or to make disposition of said property or the avails there- 
of, by her last Will and Testament, in the same manner as if she were sole and un- 
married, without being in any manner subject to the control, power or disposal of 
her present or any future husband, or liable for the payment of his debts or bound 
for the fulfilment of his contracts or engagements, and in the event of the decease 
of my said daughter, without having sold or disposed of the said property and pre 
mises by Deed or Will, as she is above authorized and empowered to do, then tb 
same shall go to and become the property of. and I do hereby devise the same to' 
her D(a)ughter, Hellen Madison Jones, her Executors, Administrators and assigns, 
absolutely. 

Third. In trust, however, if my said dear wife should survive my said 
daughter, Ann E. Jones, that the said house and lot of ground and premises shall 
become the estate and property of my said wife and be disposed of by her, by Deed 
or Will, as she may deem proper; but in case of the decease of my said wife without 
making such disposition, then, in trust for, and I do hereby devise and bequeath 
the same house and lot of ground and premises unto the children which my said 
daughter, Ann E. Jones, now has, and may hereafter have by her present husband 
Samuel Jones, Jr., and to the Executors, Administrators and Assigns of such children 



le 



•Baltimore Index 2. Lib. 28, folio 28. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 23 

absolutely, to be equally divided between them, share and share alike; and in case 
of the decease of any such children of my said daughter, under age and without 
issue living, at the time of his or her death respectively, the part or share of him, 
her or them, so dying, shall go to the survivors or survivor of them, the said 
children. 

Item. All the residue and remainder of my estate, real, personal and mixed, 
I give and bequeath to my said beloved wife, Ann Elizabeth Forman, her heirs, 
executors, administrators and assigns absolutely. 

And lastly, I do hereby nominate and appoint my dear wife, Ann Elizabeth 
Forman, to be the executrix of this my last Will and testament, hereby revoking all 
former Wills by me made, and declaring this to be my only one. 

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my 
Seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight 
hundred and forty-seven. 

Francis Forman. i Seal, i 

Signed, sealed, published and declared by Francis Forman, the Testator, to 

be his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who in his presence, at his 

request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as 

Witnesses. 

Fielder Israel, 

I. Robert Israel, 

Thos. B. Israel. 

BAiiTiMOKE City Sc. 

On the 23d day of Dec, 1857, came I. Robert Israel and Thomas B. Israel, 
two of the subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing last AVill and Testament of 
Francis Forman, late of said city deceased and made oath on the Holy Evangels of 
Almighty God that they did see the testator sign and seal this Will, that they heard 
him publish, pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament, 
that at the time of his doing so he was to the best of their apj)rehensions of sound 
and disposing mind, memory and understanding and that they together with Fielder 
Israel, the other subscribing witness thereto, subscribed their names as Witnesses to 
this Will in his presence, at his request and in the presence of each other. 

Sworn to in open court. Test. Isaac P. Cook, Register of Wills for Baltimore 
City. 

WILL OF ANN E. FORMAN.^ 

I, Ann E. Forman of the city of Baltimore, in pursuance of a deed of tru.st 
from Francis Forman to John N. Brown, bearing date June 3, 1852, recorded among 
the land records of Baltimore Co., in Lib. E. D. No. 13, folio 124, and also by deed 
from Henry BarroU to him the said John N. Brown, recorded in Lib. E. D. No. 80, 



'Baltimore lib. 41, fol. 472. 



24 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

fol. 386, do make this my last Will (<fec..) To my soiiin-law John N. Brown and 
grandson Francis F. Jones, $8100 in trust for use of my son-in-law Sanniel J<»nes, Jr., 
with reversion. 

To my grand children, Francis F. Jones, Albert Jones, Duncan Jones (sonsj 
of my deceased daughter, Ann E. Jones,) and Louis Jones, Evelina Brown Davison 
and Henry Davison, (giand children of my deceased daughter, Ann E. Jones,) to 
be equally divided. . . . 

To my son-in-law, John N. Brown $5000 in trust . . . for the support 
and maintenance and education of my grandson, Arthur T. F'orman, (son of William 
R. Forman), . . . said sum to become the property of ray said grandson, Ai'thur i 
T. Forman, his heirs («fec.) absolutely. . . . But in case my said giaudsun shall! 
depart tliis life under 21 years of age and without issue living at his death. . . 
I dispose of said sum of 85000 in following manner: 

I give one-fouith part thereof to my grand children, Wm. B. Foi-man, Ellen 
Dupont, Ann E. Dismukes, children of my deceased son, Arthur I. Forman; one- 
fourth part thereof to my daughter, Evelina Brown, her heirs, <fec. . . . 

One-fourth part to my daughter, Caroline Howard, her heirs, cfec. . . . 
the other fourth part to my daughter, Mary J. [ane] Vickars and her heirs, <fec. . . . 

I hereby release, exonerate, acquit and discharge the heirs executors and ad- 
ministrators of my deceased son, Arthur I. Forman, of and fiom all indi^btedness to 
me or my estate and from the payment of any and all sums of money due or owing 
by my said son, Arthiu- I. Forman, to me. 

All the rest residue and remainder of my estate ... I give and bequealh 
to my three daughters, Evelina Brown, Caroline Howard and Mary J. Vickars. 

Ex'r. son-in-law, John N. Brown. 

(Signed) Ann E. Forman. 
July 20, 1871. 
Prob. June 30, 1875. 

The Deed of Trust to which allusion is made in the foregoing Will is thus 
indexed in the Superior Court Records, Baltimore: 

Lib. E. D. No. 13, p. 124. 

Francis Forman Ass'nt to John N. Brown (in trust ... lot on Eutaw 
street). June 3, 1852. 



The Forman lot in Greenmount cemetery, Baltimore, is in Area I, 81, 82; a 
double lot. enclosed by an iron fence, lying west of the Public Mausoleum. The 
nearest entrance gate is on Greenmount Ave., opposite Lafayette ave. A handsome 
monument bears the names of several members of the Forman family. 

(On east face of monument.) 

F. Forman, 

Died Nov. 23, 1857, 

In the 85th year of 

his age. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 25 

(Also east face of monument.) 

Ann Elizabeth, 

wife of Francis Forman 

Died June 24, 1875, 

Aged 91 years. 



(On west face.) 

Evelina Forman Brown, 

Born September 16, 1810, 

Died April 10, 1886. 

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 



(On north face of Forman monument.) 

Arthur I. Forman, 

Died at Quincy, Fla., Nov. 27, 1867, 

In the 61st year of his age. 



Ann E. 

Wife of Samuel Jones, Jr., 

Died at New Orleans, Louisiana, 

Feb. 16, 1864, in the 56th year 

of her age. 



Wm. R. Forman, 

Died in Kent Co., Md., 

Aug. 17, 1857, in the 

39th year of his age. 



Samuel Jones, Jr., 

Died at New Orleans, La. 

April 22, 1874, in the 70th 

year of his age. 



No inscription on south face of Forman monument. 



West of the Forman monument, in the same lot is a double grave, with large 
marble headstone inscribed: 



26 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Jolm N. Brown, 

Eoni 

May 19, 1807, 

Died 
Jan. 31, 1881. 

Evelina Fonuan, 

Boru 
Sept. 16, 1810, 

Died 

April 10, 1886. 

There remaineth therefore a rest to tlie people of God. 



(In S. W. corner of lot, .small marble headstone): 

Our Baby. 

He shall gather the lambs 

in his arms and carry them 

in his bosom. 

Aug. 14, 1860. Isaiah 40.11. 



'(Headstone N. W. corner of lot): 

Ann Allison, 

Died 

Nov. 23, 1869, 

Aged 86 years. 

For me to live is Christ 

and to die is gain. 



(Headstone, Formau lot). 

In 

Memory of 

George W. Howard, 

Died 

Nov. 27, 1888, 

In the 75th year of 

his age. 

He giveth his beloved sleep. 



There are no tombstones in the Forman lot in Greenmount, except the five, the 
inscriptions on which have been here given: there are two small mounds with no 
stones. 



'Note:— This lady was a friend of the family, but not a relative. 




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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 27 

10. Arthur Immel Forman, son of Francis and Anne E. (Immel) Forman, 
b. Baltimore, Oct. 12, 1807, d. Quincy, Fla., Nov. 27, 1867. 

m. 1886, Mary Ann Booth, dan. of William Booth of "Shenstone," Not- 
I toway Co., Va., who m. Mary Ann Fitzgerald of "Leinster," Amelia 
^ Co., Va. 8 

1, Fi-ancis Forman, b. 1838, d. age 7 months. 

8 

2, William Booth Forman, M. D., b. Quincy, Fla., 1839. 
m. 1st, Lillian Hanna of Pensacola, Fla. 
m. 2nd, Flora Pope of Athens, Ga. 



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9 

1, William Arthur Forman, b. 1892. 

9 

2, Ralph Pope Forman, b. 1894. 

8 

8, Ellen Forman, b. Quincy, Fla., Oct. 12, 1841. 
m. Charles Wesley Dupont. 



S 



1, Evelina Forman Dupont. 

9 

2, Charles Dupont. 

8 

4, Anne Elizabeth Forman, b. Quincy, Fla., Jany. 14, 1844. 
m. Dec. 19, 1865, Elisha Paul Dismukes of Nashville, Tenn., 
|_ b. June 2, 1839. 

I 

1, Arthur Vickers Dismukes, d. aged 6 years. 

2, Robena Dismukes, d. aged 4 years. 

8, Elisha Paul Dismukes, b. Aug. 8, 1870, m. Ida Helena Morrisett. 

4, William Forman Dismukes, d. aged 1 year. 

5, John Thompson Dismukes, d. aged 14 years. 

6, Herbert Dismukes, d. aged 6 months. 

7, Robert Ernest Dismukes, b. March 5, 1877. 

8, Mary Ellen Dismukes, d. aged 1 mouth. 

9, Helen Dismukes, d. aged 5 years. 
10, Cora Dismukes, d. aged 5 months. 



ARTHUR I. FORMAN. 

Arthur Immel Forman, son of Francis Forman and Anne Elizabeth 
Forman, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 12th, 1807. He married 
Mary Anne Booth of Shenstone, (Booth Homestead), Nottoway Co., Virginia, 
in 1836. They had four children, which are as follows: ^Francis Forman, who died 
in infancy ; '^William Booth, ^Ellen D., and *Anne Elizabeth. Arthur Forman 
was a college graduate and entered the office of Mr. Osgood, where he read law. 
Just as he finished his law course, being troubled with a weak thi-oat he decided 



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that a warmer climate would suit his health better. His father gave him a lor., 
saddle bags and oue hundred dollars witli which to begin hte He rode al ti... 
way on horseback to Montgon^erj , Alabama, where he settled but was only the.v 
one year as malarial fever almost depopulate.! the town, caused by so much cleannK 
of new land by the settlers. A friend of his, Richard Taylor, had moved to J alia- 
hassee, Leon Co., Florida and wrote him that it was a garden spot, and to com,, 
there to live. He decided to do so, and took the journey on horseback. He wa- 
there about two years. In 1832 malarial fever was AiBry prevalent and fatal iron, 
the same cause-land clearing. His friend Richard Taylor was stricken with te^v, 
and died There were not well people enough to nurse the sick. He could liu.l no 
one to sit up with the remains of his friend Richard Taylor, so he wrapped hnnselt 
in a blanket and lay on the floor to keep guard over the dead. In the night he 
heard a noise, some one trying to torce the front door open, after calling several 
times with no response he threw a heavy iron weight or dumb bell striking the dooi' 
and splitting it from top to bottom, narrowly missing a negro man's head, and gn- 
ing the negro such a fright that he almost died. Tlie heavy air laden with malaria 
so harassed his bronchial trouble that he moved again to the little sister city <>t 
Tallahassee, twenty miles north— Quincy, named for John Quincy Adams who wa^ 
then president of the United States. There he met Mary Ann Booth, who was visit- 
ing her uncle, Rev. Freeman Fitzgerald of Virginia. They were married and lie 
purchased a plantation on which to place a number of lujgroes, inherited by his wilr 
from her father's estate,— David, Winnie the laundress, Pauline the seamstress. 
Woodville, Caswell, Cleborne, Charlotte, Joshua the weaver, Eliza the spinner, (our 
of these spinning wheels is now in the possession of Mrs. E. F. Disinukes, Columbu-^, 
Ga.,) Merritt, Mulville, David the younger, Martha, Jane, Rosa, and Emma. 

Mr. Hudson Muse^ of Petersburg, Va., married Harriet Booth, a sister of Mrs. 
Forman. The two brothers-in-law formed a co-partnership. Mr. Forman built him- 
self a house in the town where he lived and looked after the education of the chil- 
dren. He was on the Board of Education in the State High School. Mr. Mu>.' 
spent most of his time in the Ocklocknee and River Plantation directing the ov<m 
seers. Mr. Forman told his children many incidents of Indians of whom there weiv 
a great many all around them. He was a member of the Military Home Guards. 
His partner, Mr. Muse was in active service, enlisting in Captain Charles H. Du 
Font's company in the Seminole Indian war, 1835. In those days men slept in 
their homes with their flint^ and steel lock muskets by their beds, a chair near by 
with a dark cloak thrown around it, to keep the hostile Indians from seeing the 
light in the room. In those days they had no matches and had to strike fire with 
the flint. Mr Arthur Forman was one of the men detailed to escort the Indians to 
Tampa, Florida, where they embarked for the west, he spoke the Indian dialect well 
and often said the accent that they gave their names was much prettier than the 
present pronunciation. The last syllable was emphasized. Mr. Forman was senior 
warden in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Quincy, Florida, for many years, until his 
death. His three children were confirmed by Bishop Rutledge in 1865. At the 

^Son of a naval officer, Hudson Muse. -His musket was kept in his closet in his room, until the Civil War 
broke, it was then stolen. 




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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 29 

close of the Civil War, there was an execution against the church for repairs done, 
there was no money in the treasury, and Mr. Forman paid the debt, six hundred 
dollars, had good titles made, and gave the church and lot as a present to the 
diocese of Florida. 

Mr. Forraan was Justice of the Peace for years, and served his country in 
many capacities. He was a member of tlie Florida legislature, 1840-1850. The 
records have been poorly kept. He was mayor of Quincy in the forties. He wrote 
many articles on developing the resources of the states by railroads. He often said 
that when he was in the legislature, important papers liad to be sent to Wasliington, 
D. C , by messenger on horseback, which took him twenty-one days to reach his 
destination. There was a little raw hide trunk that he used to keep all his writings 
in, but after his death the house was rented out, and many valuable tilings lost. 
His health demanded much out of door exercise. He kept two servants, Anthony and 
Merritt to cultivate his orange trees and gardens. His home was a typical southern 
mansion, where a cordial greeting awaited all visitors. He belonged to the Home 
Guards during the Civil War. At the battle of Natural Bridge, thirty miles south 
of Tallahassee on the gulf coast, the booming of cannons could be distinctly heard. 
Quincy was Gen. Howell Cobb's headquarters until the close of tlie war. Mr. For- 
iiian's only son Dr. Wm. Booth Forman was seriously wounded at the battle of 
Chickamauga and was sent to Marietta, Ga. His father went to bring him home, 
and as most of the railroads had been destroyed, traveling was very rough and the 
trip was too much for him as he never seemed to regain his strength. 

When tlie news of the surrender of General Robert E. Lee reached our home 
two weeks later, it was not credited. His advice to his slaves when told of their 
freedom, was to remain with him until the end of the year 1865 and that he would 
pay them wages. They knew that they had a good master and home, and they 
kept steadily on with their work, and many of them remained witli him until his 
death in 1867. To this day those who are left, speak of him as "good old master." 

Arthur Forman told his childi-en many reminiscences of his early life, one 
among them was that he was noted in school for his strength. Whenever a new 
b<ty was entered at school, he was always called upon to measure his strength and 
dexterity with him, and nine times out of ten he threw his man down with a great 
sliout from the boys. He was but a little boy during the bombardment of Balti- 
more in the war of 1812. He said he could never forget his fathers last words to 
him when he bade him goodbye to enlist, "to be a man and take care of his mother." 
All night long he sat up with her watching the magnificent sight of the bombs 
Iwrsting in air, and it looked to him as if the heavens and earth were on fire. He had 
the silver in a basket by him, while his mother kept the little ones near her, so that 
if the house caught on fire they could escape to a place of safety. 

Arthur Forman was ill only a few hours and passed away after living the life 
nf a good Christian. He often spoke of Francis Scott Key who was an intimate 
friend of the family, with a great deal of afl:ection. 



30 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

ANCESTRY OF MRS. ARTHUR I. FORMAN (MARY ANN BOOTH). 

Mary Ann Booth, who married Artliur I. Forman, was born at " Sheustone " 
in Nottoway Co., Virginia, April 10, 1810, and died May 3, 1892, and is buried at 
Quincy, Florida. Her father was William Bootli, son of Gilliam Booth and Martha 

Cryer. 

The family of Booth is of English descent and undoubtedly settled in Vir- 
ginia prior to the Revolution. There were nine of the Booth name from Virginia, 
and probably more, in the Revolutionary War. 'Gilliam Bootli died in Dinwiddie 
Co., in 1810. His son William removed to Salem, Botetourt Co., Virginia, in 1817. 
When Wm. Booth moved to Lawrence Co., Alabama, he first settled and built a large 
brick mansion; lie had twelve children. The homestead was called Shenstone, after 
his old home in Virginia. Mr. George Garth now owns the old Booth place. Mr. 
Booth's brother-in-law Rev. Freeman Fitzgerald built Rocliy Hill, and Littk-bury 
Jones built the brick house where Mr. Harvey Gilchrist now lives. Mr. Wm. Booth 
went in 1825 on horsebaciv to Franklin, Tennessee, on business and to visit a friend, 
Mr. Foster, at whose home he died very suddenly, and is buried there in the Foster 
inclosure. He married Mary Ann Fitzgerald in 1792. Slie was the daughtt^r of a 
revolutionary soldier. Major William Fitzgerald, and Sarah Epes his wife. 

Major William Fitzgerald^ served throughout the Revolution, raised a com- 
pany at his own expense, was promoted to Major at the battle of Guilford, North 
Carolina, where he was stunned by tlie concussion of a cannon ball, and lay insen- 
sible two days. He took pai't in tlie surrender at Yorktown and was honoi-ably di-- 
charged at tlie close of the war. He is referred to in the Virginia Magazine nf 
History and Biography for October, 1900. He was the son of William and Elizabeth 
(Irby) Fitzgerald. His wife Sarnh Eppes whom he marrie*! in 1777, was the 
daughter of Richard Eppes of Bermuda Hundred, who married Martha Boiling. 
Major William Fitzgerald died in Nottoway Co., Virginia, in 1818. 

The Virginia Historical Magazine for 1896, p. 396, states that Richard Eppes 
was a member of the House of Burgesses from Chesterfield Co. in 1752, '55, '58, and 
'62 to '65, and probably other years. 



NOTES ON BOOTH WILLS. 

By President Lyon G. Tyler, of William and Mary College. 

Amelia County: 

Will of George Booth, dated Dec. 10, 1764; proved July 23, 1767. Names 
wife Judith Booth, sons John, William. David, Nathan and George, daughter Ann 
Booth and Elizabeth Booth. Brother William Booth. 

Will of Thomas Booth, Sr., dated Sept. 15, 1758; proved June 1766. Names 
sons Thomas, George, William and Nathan one shilling each; son John the home- 
stead 338 acres, daus. Joyce and Ann. 

Will of William Booth, dated Sept., 1783. Names wife Phebe Booth, sons 

'Gilliam Booth served in the Revolutionary War. ^Lived at Leinster, Amelia Co., Va. Amelia was once a 
part 01 JNottoway Co. 




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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 31 

William, Matthew, Thomas, and Philip Booth. Makes Archer Johnson and Wm. 
Wilson executors. 

Will of John Booth, dated Oct. 24, 1798. Four children, (1) John, (2) 
Thomas, (3) Mary, (i) Elizabeth Booth. 

Prince George Cotinty: 

From which Amelia was formed. 

Thomas Booth mentioned in 1724. 
SiJEKY County: 

Will of Thomas Booth of Surry Co., names wife Ann and Father George. 
Dated July 8, 1751; proved 19 Nov., 1751. 



NOTES ON BRETT AND ISHAM FAMILIES. 

The will of Sir Edward Brett of Blendall, Parish of Bexley, County of Kent, 
England, dated Dec. 22, 1682, was proved March 17, 1683. Among his legatees were 
the children of his niece Ann, daughter of his sister Mary Isham, and £200 apiece 
to the daughters of his nephew, Henry Isham, late of Virginia, deceased, by 
Katherine his wife. 

Henry Isham, son of William Isham and Mary Brett, his wife, came from 
England to Virginia and married Katherine, widow of Joseph Royal of Henrico 
•County. He died about 1675, leaving issue I. Henry, died unmarried about 1679. 
His will is on record in Henrico Co., Va., dated 18 Nov., 1678, proved Feb'y 1, 1679. 
He gives to "my honored mother Mrs. Katherine Isham " one-third of his personal 
property; to his sister " Miss Ann Isham " one-third of his personal property ; to his 
sisters, " Mrs. Mary Randolph" and " Miss Ann Isham " his plantation in Charles 
City County, called Doggams, io be equally divided ; to William Randolph the rest 
of his estate in England, Virginia and elsewhere, and makes him executor. II. Mary 
married William Randolph of Turkey Island. III. Ann married Colonel Francis 
Eppes of Henrico. 

The will of Mrs. Katherine Isham, dated August 10, 1686, was proved in 
Henrico Co., December, 1686 ; bequests * * * the residue of her money to her two 
daughters Mary Randolj^h and Ann Epes and gives each two silver salt cellars ; * * * 
to her grandson Isham Epes, a negro ; * * * to daughter Ann Epes her seal ring, a 
pair of silver clasps and a silver bodkin ; * * * Her son Joseph Royal, and son-in- 
law Francis Epcs^ executors. Some writers have given the name of the third child 
of Henry and Katherine Isham as "Elizabeth" but the extracts from the wills of 
Henry Isham (Jr.) and Mrs. Katherine Isham give the name " Ann." All agree 
that the daughter married Colonel Francis Eppes of Henrico. 

Col. Francis Eppes of Henrico, born 1659, died about January, 1719, married 
Ann Isham and had issue — Francis, Isham, William and others. Francis Eppes, 
son of Col. Francis Eppes and Ann Isham, his wife, born about 1685 — died in 1734. 
His will, dated Nov. 7, 1733, was proved in Henrico, December, 1734. He married 
Sarah and had issue — Francis, William, Richard and others. 



32 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Richard Eppes, son of Fi-ancis and Sarali Eppes, was bom about , died 

1765. His will is recorded in Chesterfield Co., dated May 20, 1762, and proved at 
July Court 1765. He married first Martha, daughter of Kob(!rt and Anne Cocke 
Boiling, and had issue by this marriage — Francis, Sarali and Martha. In his will 
he disposes of a large estate. One item : " I give to my daughter Sarah * * * so 
much money as will make up the legacy left her by her Grand Mother Anne Boiling, 
deed., six hundred pounds current money." 

Sarah Eppes, daughter of Richard and Martha Boiling Eppes, born Nov. 17, 
1757, married Major William Fitzgerald of Nottoway County, Va., in 1777, and had 
issue — Mary Ann Fitzgerald and others. 

Mary Ann Fitzgerald, daughter of Major William and Sarah Eppes Fitzgerald, 
married William Booth of Nottoway about 1795 and had issue — Mary Ann Booth 
and others. 

Mary Ann Booth, daughter of William and Mary Ann Fitzgerald Booth, 
born April 10, 1810, in Nottoway County, Va., married Arthur I. Forman in Quincy, 
Florida, Oct. 19, 1836, and liad issue — Anne Elizabeth Forman and others. 

Anne Elizabeth Forman, daughtej- of Arthur I. and Mary Ann Booth Forman, 
married Elisha P. Dismukes in Quincy, P^lorida, Dec. 19, 1865. 

- Richard Cocke came from England and settled in Virginia prior to 1632. He 
was member of the House of Burgesses in 1632, 1644 and 1645. He mariicd and 
had issue, Richard Cocke the Younger of Malvern Hill. His will is on record in 
Henrico Co., Va., dated Oct. 4, 1665. Richard Cocke the Younger married and had 
issue, Anne Cocke, who' married Robert Boiling, son of Robert Boiling, who came to 
this country from London, England, in 1660, and his second wife, Ann Stith, 
daughter of Major John Stith. 

Anne Cocke, daughter of Richard Cocke the Younger, married Robert Boiling 
and had issue — Martha Boiling and others. 

Martha Boiling, daughter of Robert and Anne Cocke Boiling, married Rich- 
ard Eppes of Bei'rauda Hundred and had issue — Sarah and others. 

Sarah Eppes was born in 1757 and married William Fitzgerald in 1777. 



WILL OF RICHARD EPPES. 

In the name of God, Amen. 

I, Richard Eppes, of Bermuda Hundred, and County of Chesterfield, being 
in full Health and perfect sense and memory, considering the uncertainty of life, do 
make, ordain, constitute and appoint this my last Will and Testament in manner and 
form following. 

Imprimis. I desire that my whole Estate be kept together under the Direction 
and Management of my Executors hereafter named, until my son Francis arrives at 
the age of twenty-one years, and the profits arising therefrom (after supplying my 
wife and Family with all Necessary provisions, maintaining and Educating my Child- 
ren, paying my Debts, and the annual sum of fifty pounds current money to my 
wife) be applied towards raising my daughters' fortunes hereinafter mentioned. 




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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 33 

Item. I give and bequeath my loving wife [second wife Tabitha Adams, 
who survived him] Tabitha the use of my Houses and four Hundred acres of land 
where I now live, to be laid of in one entire piece as she shall order and direct for 
and dureing her natural life. I in like manner give her the use of my Lotts and 
Houses in Bermuda Hundred town. Also, when my said son Francis comes to the 
age aforesaid, I give to my said Wife, the use of the following slaves, to-wit: Scipio, 
Charles, Dick, Cyphax, Cyrus, Pegg, Indy, Herculus and Captain, for and during 
her natural life. I also desire my wife may keep such servants in her House as she 
shall choose out of my whole Estate, until my said son arrives to the age aforesaid. 

Item. I give, devise and bequeath to my said wife and her heirs the follow- 
ing slaves, to-wit: Great Betty, Iris, Daniel, George, Isaac, Nan, Little Betty, Sucky, 
Hannah, Lemon, Napper, Harry Brown and Aggy with all their future Increase, 
my four wheeled Chaise, and any four Horses she shall choose out of my stock at the 
time of my Death, also my sorrel mare and her eldest filly. I also give ray said 
wife fifty pounds current money per annum, to be annually paid her out of the 
profits of my Estate, until my son Francis comes of age, as a satisfaction for tlie 
Labour of the slaves last above mentioned, in which I declare my Intention is to vest 
in my said wife a present Interest in fee simple. 

I give to my Daughter Sarah, [by Martha Boiling, his first wife] and her 
heirs my Negro Girl Amey, also when my said Daughter comes to lawfull age or 
marrys I give to her so much money as will make up the legacy left her by her 
grandmother Ann Boiling, dec'd, six hundred Pounds current money. 

Item. I give to my Daughter Martha Boiling one negro Girl named Molly to 
her and her heirs also when my said Daughter arrives to lawful age or marrys I give 
her five hundred Pounds current money. 

Item. I give to my daughter Tabitha [by second marriage] and her heirs, 
my Negro Girl Fanny, also when my said Daughter arrives to lawfull age or marrys, 
I give her five hundred pounds current money. 

Item. I give to my Daughter Ann and her heirs, my Negro Girl Nann, also 
when my said Daughter comes of Age or Marrys I give her five hundred pounds cur- 
rent money. 

Item. I give and beqiieath to my son Francis and his heirs forever, the 
Residue of my Lands in the hundred tract (after my wife shall have laid of the four 
hundred acres allotted her; to be entered on and possessed when he becomes of age. 
I also give to my said son Francis after the Death of my wife tlie four hundred 
acres of land devised her for life, to him my said son Francis and his heirs forever. 
I also give my said son Francis one acre of land adjoining my lot in Bermuda 
Hundred town, at the River. I also give my said sou and his heirs, my Negro wench 
Izabel and her child Eve, my Silver Tankard, eleven Silver Spoons marked M. B., one 
dozen Silver tea Spoons marked F. E., two silver Salts, and three of my Beds and fur- 
niture. I also give my said son when he comes of age, half my stock of Cattle, 
horses, sheep and Hogs which shall then belong to my plantations at Wintipock, 
Amelia and Longfield. 

Item. I give and Bequeath to my two sons Francis and Richard Henry and 



34 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

their heirs forever all my lauds at Wintopock and Amelia to be equally divided be- 
tween them by my Executors. Regard being had in such Division to Quantity and 
quality to thera my said sons Respectively and their heirs forever. 

Item. I give and devise to my son Ricliard Henry and his lieirs all my lands 
in Heiu-ico Ct)unty, purchased of my Brother William Kppes, commonly called Long- 
field, containing by Estimation nine hundred and eight acres more or less. I also 
give and devise my said son Richard Henry and his heirs my Lott of huid in the 
town of Gatesville. I also give my said son and his heirs the following Negroes, to- 
wit, Ben, Sally and her child Joe Brooks. I also give my said son, one Silver Tankard, 
one Dozen Silver Spoons, and two Silver Salts, to be purchased by my Executorn out 
of the profits of my Estate and marked with the Family Arms.' I also give ray said 
son three feather Beds and furniture. 

Item. All my Negroes not heretofore pai-ticulai-ly mentioned and disposed 
of and their future Increase I give to be equally divided between my two sons 
Francis and Richard Henry, at the time my son Francis comes of age, to tliem my 
said sons Respectively and their heirs forever. In the same manner I devise the 
Negroes given my wife for life, to be divided at the Death of my said wife. 

Item. Upon the contingancy of my son Francis dying before he attains the 
age of twenty-one years, I give and devise the whole Estate both real and personal 
(devised my said son by this my will) to my son Richard Henry and his heirs for- 
ever. In like manner in case my son Richard Henry Dyes before he attains the age 
of twenty-one years I give and devise the whole Estate both Real and personal (de- 
vised my said son Richard Henry by this my will) to my son Francis and his heirs 
forever, the survivor of my two said sons paying my Daughters each two hundred 
pounds current money over and above the sum before devised them by this my will. 

Item. Whereas I am seized as Tenant in fee tail of part of my Lands at Long- 
field devised by this my will to my son Richard Henry and his heirs, my will is if 
my son Francis or his heirs shall ever make any claim to the said intailed lands or 
any part thereof and Disturb my said son Richard Henry liis heirs or assigns in the 
quiet and peacable possession and Injoyment thereof, then I give to my said son 
Richard Henry his heirs and assigns my whole Estate at the Hundred and Poels de- 
vised by this my will to my son F^-ancis as above said. 

Item. I give my son Richard Henry half my stocks of Cattle, Horses, Sheep 
and Hogs which shall be on my plantations at Wintopock, Longfleld and Amelia, at 
the time my son Fi'ancis comes of age. 

Item. I give and Bequeath my Nephew Richard Harris and his Heirs my 
tract of land on Swift Creek known by the name of Grillses. 

Item. In case the profits of my Estate shall not be sufficient to answer the 
purposes aforesaid, and raise money enough by the time my son Francis comes of 
age to pay of my daughters portions, my will is that my wife and Sons shall be 
equally chargeable with what the money then in hand shall fall short of making up 
their fortunes the several sums before mentioned. 



'Mrs. Dismukes has Epes coat of arms ; also a very old solid silver teapot— an heirloom. 




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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 35 

Item. My will and Intention is that the Children born (of the female slaves 
specifically devised) after the Date of this my will, may go with their Respective 
mothers. 

Item. The Residue of my personal Estate not particularly herein devised I 
give and devise to my loveing wife. 

Item. I desire that my Executors hereafter named may devise my Lands and 
Negroes at the times and in the manner before directed and allot to my sons their Just 
and Equal Parts according to the true Intent and meaning of this my will. 

Lastly, I constitute and appoint my loveing wife Executrix, and my Friends 
the Hon'ble Peter Randolph, Esqr., Colo. Archibald Cary, Mr. Richard Adams and 
Mr. Thomas Adams executors of this my last Will and Testament. I also appoint the 
said Peter Randolph, Esqr., Guardian to my son Francis, and my two Daughters 
Sarah and Martha Boiling, and my wife and Thomas Adams Guardians to the rest 
of my Children, hereby revoaking all other wills by me heretofore made, and do 
declare this my last will and Testament. 

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 
twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and 
sixty-two. 

Rich'd Eppes. JL. S. 



Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared as his last Will and Testament the 
words (til my son Francis comes of age) (in my said wife) (Sheep) {&, their future 
Increase) Interlined before signed, In presence of 

John Worsham, Senr., 
John Worsham, Junr., 
George Clough, 
Joseph Walker, 
Thomas Stratton, 
John Knibb, 
Jas Akin. 

In the County Court of Chesterfield County, July, 1765: 

The last Will and Testament of Richard Eppes, dec'd, was presented in Court 
by Arch. Cary and Tho. Adams, two of the Executors therein named, proved by the 
oath of John Worsham, Jun., a witness thereto, and on the motion of the said Arch. 
& Thomas who gave Bond and took the oatli the law directs. 

Certificate for obtaining a probate thereof in due form is granted them. 

In the County Court of Chesterfield County, August, 1765: 

The last Will and Testament of Richard Eppes, dec'd, was further proved by 
the oath of John Worsham, Senr., a witness thereto. 
Ordered that the same be recorded. 

A Copy-Teste: 

Philip V. Cogbill, Clerk 



36 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

DR. WILLIAM BOOTH FOKMAN. 

Copy of Letter. 

January 29th, 1002. 
Dear Sister : 

lu response to your request I write you of my experience in the Civil Wai-, 
1861-1865. My father, Arthur Forman of Baltimore, Md., sent me to the Georgia 
Military State Institute at Marietta in October, 1858. From there I went to the 
Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Virginia, in October, 1859. Passing 
through Washington, D. C, I visited the White House, where I met President 
Buchanan and Miss Lane, the President's niece. I then visited my father's relatives 
in Baltimore. When in Staunton, Va., the military were out to receive the Hon. 
Stephen A. Douglas, who was a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, 
and in his speech he advised the South to fight for her rights in the Union. I 
remained at the V. M. I. until the fall of Ft. Sumter, April 12th, 1861, which event 
caused, the secession of Vii'ginia, her (^mvention being in session at that time, con- 
sidering the subject. I remember hearing a letter from General Winfield Scott, the 
ranking olficer of our United States army at that time, read ))y Colonel Francis 
Smith, our Superintendent, before the Debating Society. 

This letter stated that if the South seceded he would march two columns of 
40,000 men each, one through Vii'ginia down the Atlantic coast, and the other down 
the Mississippi Valley, they would meet at Mobile, Alabama, in 60 days. Some of 
the professors made addresses on the subject. Professor Stonewall Jackson, my 
teacher in mathematics, remained silent, but was known as a deep thinker. The 
professors were all graduates of West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy. They were 
Professors Jackson, Smith, Preston, Gilliam, author of Military Tacitics, McClaus, 
Colson and others. A few days later we were summoned to ranks by the long roll call, 
and then Colonel Jackson made us a speech as follows : " Young men, of all wars, 
civil war is most to be dreaded, but if it must come, we draw the sword and tlirow 
away the scabbard." This, we cadets thought, was a long speech for our belovcid 
teacher, for he was a silent hero of our bloody war. We cadets under Colonel 
Jackson, in a few hours after Vii-ginia seceded, were en route to Richmond, where 
we were engaged in drilling the iVrmy of Northern Virginia. We drilkni the m(!ii 
one hour, and rested them one hour, from sunrise to sunset. Just bcifore the battle 
of Manassas, Colonel Gilliam in a speech advised the cadets to go to their homes 
and raise companies, and drill them for the coming conflicts, and that our services 
were too precious to be lost by going as a body into battle, when we could benefit 
our country so much more by scattering, organizing, drilling raw recruits, <fec. We 
occupied the Central Ladies Building at the Fairgrounds. The men were quartered 
in the cattle depots. As a drill master I was promoted 1st Lieutenant. The 
Inspectors of Elections allowed some of us to vote for Jefferson Davis for President of 
the Ct)nfederate States. On my return home I visited my mother's relatives in 
Nottoway Co., Va. Cousin Mary Fitzgerald of " The Castle " asked me " why we 
drilled the men almost to death." I answered, to keep up with our beloved com- 





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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 37 

mander, Col. Jackson, on the battle field. On reaching home in Quincy, Gadsden 
Co., Florida, I actively assisted in raising Company C, the color company of the 
6th Florida Regiment. My cousin, Wm. Booth Malone, was made captain. I, his 
first lietenant, was in charge of the Color Guard, ours being Company C, the center 
company. The sixth was organized with J. J. Finley, Colonel; McLean, Lieut. Col.; 
Lafayette Kenan, Major. The Regiment was ordered to report to the Army in 
Tennessee. We were transported to Columbus, Georgia, on Chattahoochee river 
boats, thence by rail to Chattanooga. Our Regiment was detached for action service 
in East Tennessee, on the alert for raiding parties, guarding bridges, fighting bush- 
whackers, <fec. The people seemed mostly Unionist and unfriendly. Kuoxville was 
our headquarters. We were ordered to join Gen. Kirby Smith's command in liis 
Kentucky campaign. The Confederate Army crossed tlie mountains between Ten- 
nessee and Kentucky at Big Creek Gap. The Unionists at Cumberland Gap were 
cut off from a safe retreat, and narrowly escaped capture. We passed through a 
number of small towns in this wild section of Kentucky before reaching the beauti- 
ful blue grass region. At Richmond Gen. Kirby Smith with his devoted followers 
gained a signal victory. It was estimated that the Union Army lost about five 
thousand in killed and wounded. Here I was at work paroling prisoners, stacking 
captured rifles and caring for them. As we marched through Lexington, Ky., I 
remember well seeing the balconies filled with beautiful ladies, dressed in wliat 
looked to us like the height of fashion, waving their scarfs of welcome to our vic- 
torious, battle-scarred veterans, begrimed with the red dust of the battle fields, and 
their expressions of deep pity and sympathy touched our hearts. One very beauti- 
ful girl remarked, "oh, how dusty they look," to which one of the boys called out, 
" that we once had better clothes at home, that what we have on is good enough for 
the work we have to do." As soon as we rested, the ladies sent us baskets and 
baskets of good food, enough for every man. "God bless the ladies of Lexington," 
was heard on every side. We next marched through Harrodsburg and several other 
cities to Frankfort, where we inaugurated Governor Hawes at one o'clock p. m., 
while the roar of cannon could be heard in the distance. At first dark we burnt 
the bridge and marched South. Gen. Buell was marching after us with a large 
army of Unionists. Generals Bragg and Kirby Smith expected to be attacked. 
Gen. Bragg's command reached Perry ville first, where they were attacked by a larger 
force of the enemy, who were driven back after a hax'd and bloody encounter. We 
had a wagon train 22 miles in length, and some cattle to protect. We made forced 
marches at niglit to avoid a battle. It had not rained for many weeks, and we were 
suffering for water. I shall never forget the large spring of water found, large 
enough for the entire army to quench thirst. After recrossing the mountains 
we were ordered to Cumberland Gap, from which place we could look into four 
states. Here the cold was intense. We built log fires to keep from freezing, so 
scarce was our clothing, and only one blanket apiece. Our companies were reduced 
to an average of seven men. The thousand miles forced marches and privations, 
had so thinned our ranks that our regiment was but a mere skeleton. I took a part 
of a horse's corn, divided with him, to parch and eat it, to fill an aching void. I 



38 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

saw men eat raw beef with a relish on the march and I shall never forget the sad 
expressions on the faces of those who fell by the wayside, and who were never 
reported as missing. We kept back Brownlow's raiders from capturing Knoxville, 
Tenn., where we lost some of our best officers and men. Whilst we were in East 
Tennessee we were ordered into the mountains to suppress bushwliackers, four com- 
panies of Cherokee Indians going with us. I was puzzled to know how these moun- 
taineers subsisted. Nothing to eat but apples, a small patch of corn to make 
whiskey with, and a few onions, were visible. We were on the French Broad river, 
large tracts of land covered with dense ivy and laurel, and the people seemed lialf civil- 
ized. We were next ordered to fall back, and the battle of Chiclcamauga was to be 
fought. Chickamauga, the Indian name for "The River of Death," most appro- 
priate. The water is dark and angry looking. Before reaching Chickamauga we 
had a large body of Gen. Rosecraus' army cut off at McLenore's cave in a spur of 
the mountains, with the exception of one gap. Order was issued to close this gap- 
but through some misunderstanding this was not done, which precipitated this 
bloody carnage. When we moved into the cave there was one man lying dead. He 
was an officer, many canteens were lying around him ; there was good water in a 
spring near by. On Saturday morning, September 19, 1863, as the sun was rising 
in the East, and mantling Mother Earth with its golden rays, the stillness was 
broken by the boom of cannon a short distance from us, followed by the bursting of a 
shell, sending its screaming fragments of iron through our ranks. I hastily ate my 
sweet potato, which I had roasted in the ashes, and that was all the breakfast I had. 
Lieut. Hays, a sergeant and several men were killed by this explosion. Slioi'tly 
after a terrible firing and yelling set in, and on our right as far as I could see or 
hear in this direction. I could tell by these yellings when the enemy were advanc- 
ing and when retreating. This was kept up all the morning, retiring and advancing 
as reinforcements arrived, all amid the thunder of guns. We were in Gen. Buck- 
ner's division now, we were ordered to lie down with our faces to the ground before 
making this charge into death's ranks. Our regiment was ordered to take a Union 
division or corps. I can easily recall, as we lay behind one of our batteries, in an 
open skirt of woods, shot and shell flying over us, and among us, a desire prompted 
me to look down the line on my left, the men were as still as death, many of them 
were no doubt saying their last prayer before the charge. I called on the Lord to 
save me from sudden death. Orders were received to charge the enemy. Over the 
high fence we bounded, w^hen suddenly Major Kenan halted us, with orders to lie 
down, and reported to Colonel Finley that the Seventh Florida and Fifty-fourth 
Virginia had not advanced; this left us unsupported. Col. Wade I think commanded 
the 54th Virginia. Orders came again to charge, and on we went, the brave 6th 
Florida regiment across this field of death. The very air was filled with shot, shell 
and flying balls. When near the enemy's batteries, this regiment almost unsupported, 
for somebody had blundered, was ordered to fall back, for in a few minutes the regiment 
had lost nearly half of its men. At this moment Captain Malone motioned me to 
come. I rushed up just in time to catch Captain Joseph White in my arms, and we 
two laid him down, his thigh was broken. I returned to take command of our poor 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 39 

fragment of a company; sending Adler one of our men to Capt. White's assistance; 
in a few minutes a grape shot struck poor Adler in the liead, killing him instantly. 
In the charge across the field one of my men right in front of me fell on his knees, 
blood spurted from his mouth, he fell with his face to the foe, and took his long 
sleep. Capt. Mclver, John Whaley and others dropped their guns exclaiming, 
"Lieutenant, I am wounded," poor fellows, brave men, resting peacefully. When 
we were leaving the field, one of the last cannon balls or shells fired at us at close 
range gave me a near call, a brave soldier fell on his face before me, only one step 
away, I turned to pass around him, when in an instant, Hendricks of Davidson's 
Company rushed in the place where the next step would have placed me, when a 6 
pound ball passed through him. Frank Phillips and I turned him over; I asked 
him if he wanted to send any message to his mother, his only words were "give me 
water." We tenderly rested his head on his blanket roll to rest him, until the angel 
of death should bear his soul away. Such are the horrors of war. I could see his 
heart throbbing, his ragged lungs vibrating in tumultuous motions, had he not 
stepped in my place I should have been the victim. When we were ordered to rest 
for the night, I found only my tin cup and canteen missing, shot away, the leather 
strap which held tliem, and a Confederate flag given me by Miss Barnes of Harrods- 
burg, Kentucky, were lost in battle. Those young ladies were wealthy and beauti- 
ful, and gave some of us such splendid dinners. The little flag she had pinned on 
my hat, but it was gone. My friend Anderson Harris and I just before dark walked 
over a part of the battle ground, where we saw many cavalrymen of the Union 
army, lying dead or wounded among our men. We were told that a regiment of 
Ohio Cavalry were cut oft' in our rear, and attempted to escape through our lines, 
and that none of them passed through in safety. And it did look so from what I 
saw. The Colonel was reported to have ridden over the ground, the last of his regi- 
ment to fall. Harris selected him a saddle, and I took a haversack filled with 
crackers and coffee; how good this food was, as it was the fii'st we had had since a 
sweet potato early in the morning. This was a night of horrors. The woods were 
on fire, and we decided to go out, and loolc after the wounded, as a report was cir- 
culated that they were in danger of being burned alive. Men were soon put to work 
to cut down the trees, and we could hear thousands of axes cutting the trees and 
sharpening the branches to make obstructions in the way of charges from the enemy, 
which was expected the next day. 

The next morning, Sunday, Sept. 20, we were ordered to move down the line 
to our right, where heavy firing was going on. We halted, and up rode General 
Longstreet, and with him on his staff, was Paton Manning of Mississippi; he was a 
graduate at the Georgia Military Institute at Marietta. Generals Hood and McLaws' 
divisions were with him from General Lee's army. We passed many dead and 
wounded, and one battery of many field pieces, where the horses were rearing and 
plunging, with no one to man the guns. All day we charged and fought, sometimes 
falling back; in the afternoon, what was left of our brigade was ordered to take a 
strong position on a hill, the enemy being armed with repeating rifles, breach 
loaders, something unusual at that time. I had charge of the color guard, and it 



40 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

was surprising what a splendid front and perfect line we presented, after such a 
terrible experience of the previous day. The rusli we made met with little opposi- 
tion, it was done so quickly, and many of our men, who liad just been repulsed fell 
into ranks with us, waved their hats and cheered us. The trees were riddled with 
bullets. Just as we came up with Dent's Battery whic^h was n(^arly surrounded \y\ 
the enemy, I felt a terrible shock to my right foot as though struck by a severe blo^\ 
from a board on the bottom of my foot. I could not walk, but witli tlie aid of my 
sword hopped to a tree, 1 saw the bones had come through the shoe; taking out my 
knife I cut the shoe away, and took out the shattered bones. Colonel Finley came 
riding up to me, and asked if I was badly hurt, I told lum if it was only a flesh 
wound, I would go on, but not to wait for me, my foot was ruined. The enemy was 
retreating, but the shot and sIk^II were flying as thick as hail. An officer came rid- 
ing by and I mounted behind him on his horse and rode a short distance. My 
friend Captain Harris came by and assisted me in mounting behind liim on his horse, 
and reached the field hospital. The next morning we were talvcn to Dalton, Georgia. 
The wagons were filled with many desperately wounded soldiers, we were jostled 
and jolted over the worst and rockiest road I ever saw. The boys said the jolting 
hurt worse than the bullets. Captain Wm. Booth Malone and his brother Dr. Alired 
Fitzgerald Malone. my cousins, were still with our company, and engaged in the 
battle of Missionary Kidge, where Dr. Malone who was our Second Lieutenant was 
wounded and taken prisoner, carried to Johnson's Island, on Lake Erie. Albert 
Hudson Muse another cousin was killed at Missionary Ridge, Avith his face to tlie foe, 
and his soldiers' clothes, woven at home from the threads of my motlun-'s wedding dress, 
was his winding sheet. When we reached Dalton, some of the men who could walk 
broke into a deserted hotel, built a fire, and tenderly assisted the helpless in, and 
here we slept on the floor. The next nioi-ning this room looked as if a battle had 
been fought in it. The next morning a train came along and put me ofi^ in Marietta, 
Ga. Here one of my old classmates at the G. M. I. secured me a room in tlie officers' 
ward. Several days after some of the doctors or surgeons performed an operation 
which leaves me a cripple for life. The chloroform and pine top wliiskey came near 
killing me, I became emaciated, and lost my appetite. One day Mrs. Dr. Allen 
came to see me and brought me some wholesome food which saved my life. Professor 
Mange, our teacher in French, came to see me, and the good man wept and told me 
of so many of his boys who had been slain. He was at the battle of Waterloo with 
Napoleon and a most interesting conversationalist, with a tendei' heart. My father 
came to nurse me at Marietta, and took me home as soon as I was able to travel, 
riding a hundred miles in a stage coach, for the railroads were all torn up. My 
father was not well, and the fatigue of this trip told sadly on him. 

Lieutenant John Wood Malone^ of the 8th Florida Regiment, in Gen. Lee's 
army in Virginia, after passing through many battles was wounded at Gettysburg, 
Pa., and taken to Johnson's Island in Lake Erie. These cousins lived in the house 
with me and seemed as brothers. Of the seven going into the war from our old 
home, six returned, bearing the scars of war. I brought my sword home with me. 

Your affectionate brother, Wm. B. Forman 

iJudge John W. Malone, now (1902) a prominent lawyer in Florida, Major on staff of Gen. E. M. Law. com- 
manding the Fla. Division of the United Confederate Veterans. 




Mks. Annk Kli/..\iii:i II ( I'(ir.man) Dismikes. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 41 

Dr. Formal! graduated at the Maryland Medical University in Baltimore, 
Maryland, in 1867; is still practicing surgery and medicine. He received a letter 
from Colonel Shipp, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, stating that 
his name was among the number of cadets who were enrolled as graduates, "who were 
in good standing and well advanced when ordered to take up arms and fight in 
defense of their homes and firesides." 

Dr. Forman is a member of the City Council at Sneads, Jackson Co., Florida. 

"In April, 1861, at the call of the state, the Corps of Cadets, under the com- 
mand of Major— afterwards Lieutenant General — Jackson, marched for Richmond. 
These cadets were employed in instructing and drilling the large number of volun- 
teers assembled for organization and instruction in Camp Lee, near Richmond, but 
were soon disorganized and scattered by the advancement of cadets to military rank 
in the different grades of service." 

{Official Register of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.) 



MRS. ELISHA PAUL DISMUKES. 

(aNNE ELIZABETH FORMAN.) 

11. Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismukes, now living in Columbus, Georgia, 
engaged Miss Dandridge to compile a history of the Forman family, of whicli she is 
a member, being the daughter of Arthur Immel Forman and Mary Ann Booth, his 
wife. Anne Elizabeth Fonnan married Hon. Elisha P. Dismukes of Davidson Co., 
Tenn., 1865, who was admitted to the bar in Quincy, Florida, in 1860. He served 
as an officer in the Confedei-ate Army throughout the Civil War. Later lie was a 
member of the Florida Legislature. He is now President of a bank and chairman 
of the finance committee of the City of Columbus, Ga. The Dismukes family is of 
Huguenot origin and settled in Virginia. The original spelling was "Des Meaux." 

Anne Elizabetli Forman was living in Florida during the war and remembers 
many events which happened at the time of the struggle. She is now a ''Daughter 
of the Southern Confederacy " through her brother's (Dr. Wm. B. Forman) services 
in the Civil War, 1861-1865. 

Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismukes was President of the Confederate Ladies 
Memorial Association, organized just after the war. Since moving to Columbus, 
Georgia, she has become a Daughter of the American Revolution, through her great 
grandfather. Major William Fitzgerald of Virginia ; is Regent of the George Walton 
Chapter, D. A. R., which she organized July 4, 1901 ; is ex-Regent of the Oglethorpe 
Chapter, D. A. R.; is a Colonial Dame of the Georgia State Society, through the 
Epes of Virginia ; is one of the Vice Presidents of the State Division of Georgia of 
the United States Daughters of the War of 1812, through her grandfather, Francis 
Forman's services ; is President of the Free Kindergarten Association of Columbus, 
Georgia, which received its charter in 1896 ; is a member of the Trinity Episcopal 
Church Guild. 



42 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Anne Elizabeth Forman Dismnkes has two sons living : Elislia Paul Disnuikes, 
who married Helena Morrissett of Manchester, Virginia. He attended the Wash- 
ington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., also Hampden Sidney College at Farm- 
ville, Virginia. At Lexington, Va., he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega 
Society, and belongs also to the Masonic Fraternity. He is now Secretary and 
Ti-easiu-er of the Georgia Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, Ga. 

Her second son, Robert Ernest Disnnikes, attended the High School of Colum- 
bus, Georgia, and in June, 1893, took one of the two " Kinsel Scholarship Medals.'' 
He afterwards attended Mr. Fine's Preparatory School in Princeton, New Jersey. 
He graduated at the New Jersey College at Princeton in the Second Honor Class, 
A. B., June, 1899. He is now attending the Law School at Harvard, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts. 

9 

Elisha Paul Dismukes (Junior), son of Elisha P. and Anne Elizabeth (For- 
man) Dismukes, b. Aug. 8, 1870. 

m. Feb. 18, 1896, Ida Helena Morrisett of Manchester, Va. 



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1, Elisha Paul Dismukes, b. May 24, 1897. 

2, Esther Floyd Dismukes, b. Sept. 24, 1898. 

3, Mildred Forman Dismukes, b. Jan'y 6, 1900. 

4, Mary Boiling Dismukes, b. June 19, 1901. 

5, Bradley Lee Dismukes, b 1902. 

7 

12. Anne Elizabeth Forman, dau. of Francis and Anne E. (Immel) Forman, 
b. Baltimore Dec. 6, 1808, d. New Orleans Feb. 16, 1864. 

m. Samuel Jones, Jr. (Banker), b. 1804, d. April 22, 1874, in New Orleans. 

1, Francis Forman Jones of Brooklyn, N. Y. 
m. Marion Peachy Powell of Virginia. 

2, Albert Jones, d. unm. 

3, Duncan Jones of New Orleans. 

m. . Children : Samuel and Lewis. 

4, Helen Madison Jones. 

m. Henry J. Davison of London, lived in New York City. 
I (Mr. Davison married, second, Ella Howard, first cousin of 

I Helen M. Jones.) 

1, Henry Davison (Lawyer). 

m. Marie Weed Alden (a gr. dau. of Thurlow Weed). 

2, Evelina Davison (in July 1900 was living with her brother in 

London). 




ESTIIKK Fl. civil DisMlKES. 
MlI.IIRHIl FdRMAN DiS.MlKES. 
F.I.ISIIA PaI I. I'ISMLKES, yd. 



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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 43 

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13. Caroline Forman, dau. of Francis and Anne E. (Immel) Forraan, b. 1812 
(living in July, 1900, with her son, Beverly Howard, in Dutchess Co., New York), 
m. George W. Howard of Baltimore, b. 1813, d. Nov. 27, 1888. 

I 8 

1, Ella Howard. 

m. (2nd wife) Henry J. Davison. 



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1, Teresa Davison. 

2, Caroline Ella Davison. 

3, Dr. George Howard Davison. 

m. Miss Chesebrough — 1 son, Howard C. 

4, Clarence Davison, 
m. Helen Bayne. 

8 

2, Beverly Howard, b. 1850, of Mablettsville, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
m. Laura Coffin. 



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1, Samuel Beverly Howard, b. Nov. 27, 1879. 

2, Robert Coffin Howard, b. March 21, 1883. 

3, Henry Davison Howard, b. 1885. 

4, Ella Theresa Howard, b. 1888. 

5, Marietta Bayne Howard, b. 1890. 

6, Evelyn Howard. 

7, Clarence Kenneth Howard. 



WILLIAM RAYMOND FORMAN. 

14. William Raymond Forraan, son of Francis and Anne E. Forman, was 
born in Baltimore, Maryland, 1817. Just after leaving college he went on a visit to 
his brother, Arthur, who was living in Quincy, Gadsden Co., Florida. The Seminole 
Indian War was just breaking out. Judge Charles Henry Du Pont was raising a com- 
pany of troops of which he was made captain. William Forman enlisted and 
remained in the army until the close of the war. About twenty miles from Quincy, 
Mr. Greene Chairs' family were attacked by the Indians, whilst they were at the 
supper table. Mrs. Chairs was the only member of the family who escaped. She 
fled through the back door, and stooping low in a cotton field, with a black cloak 
around her, often narrowly escaped the touch of an Indian's hand, which would 
have meant certain death. William R. Forman died compai*atively a young man, 
leaving one son, Arthur Thomas Forman, who was admitted to the bar in Baltimore, 
Md., and is a practicing lawyer. 



44 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

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15. Arthur Thomas Forman. son of William Raymond Forman. 
m. Anne Marlow of Baltimore. 



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9 

1 , Evelina Brown Forman. 

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2, John Brown Foi-man. 

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3, Arthur Francis Forman. 

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4, George Knowles Forman. 

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16. Mary Jane Forman, dau. of Francis and Anne E. (Immel) Forman, b. 
June 10, 1813. 

m. Benjamin Albert Vickars, President of Marine Bank, Baltimore, sixth 
in descent from George Vickars (d. 1679) and Rebecca Bhipery. 



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1, Albert Vickars, b. 1842. 

m. Jennie Hamner, of Maryland, dau. of Rev. Dr. Hamner, Presby. 
terian Minister. 

2, Geraldine Vickars, b. 1848. 

m. Alvin Bastable of Baltimore. 

3, Francis Vickars, b. 1852. 
m. Lottie Armstrong. 

4, Charles Vickars, b. 1854. 
6, Mary Forman Vickars. 

m. Clarence Beck of Eastern Shore of Maryland. 

Note: — There were other Vickai's cliildrc^n who died young. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 45 

TABLE OF DESCENT. 

17. (Showing relationship between Mrs. Robert Wilson and Mrs. Dismukes.) 
1 

Robert Forman, m. Margaret . Capt. Richard Sweatnam, m. 1st Mary 

Immi. 167-4. I Immi. 1677. 

d . 1719. I d. 1697. 

■ Arthur Forman, m. 3d Mary Reed. John Sweatnam, m. Elizabeth, 

d. 1757. I d. 1707-8. I 

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Francis Forman, m. Elizabeth Sweatnam. 

d. 1758. I 

I 4— first son | 4 — second son 

John Forman, m. Henrietta . Arthur Forman, m. Mary . 

d . 1785. I d. 1791. d. 1785. [ d. 1817. 

n n 

Sweatnam Forman, m. 3d Hannah Wroth. Wm. Forman, m. Mary Raymond, 
d . 1807. j I 

Louisa Forman, m. 1st Jonathan Cooper. Francis Forman, m. 1806 Anne Eliz. Immel. 

ri 1^ 

Martlia Amanda Cooper, m. Robt. Wilson. Arthur Immel Forman, m. Mary AnneBooth 

d. 1867. j 

n 

Anne E. Forman, m.Elisha Paul Dismukes. 
J 

Elisha Paul, b. Aug. 8, 1870. 

m. Ida Helena Morrisett, 1896. 
Robert Ernest, b. Mar. 5, 1877. 



EXTRACTS FROM CHURCH REGISTERS AND OTHER RECORDS, ETC. 

18. Arthur Forman and Mary Reed married May 13, 1700. 

Francis Forman, sou of Arthur and Mary Foreman, born Oct. 28, 1702. Bap- 
tized May 9, 1703. 

Arthur Foreman, son of Arthur and Mary Foreman, born Nov. 3, 1706. 

Mary Foreman, daughter of Arthur and Mary Foreman, born June 19, and 
baptized Sept. 2, 1711. 

Mary Foreman buried March 10, 1713. 

Arthur Foreman and Honour Miller married June 2, 1715. 

Sarah Foreman, daughter of Arthur and Honour Forman, born Aug. 27, I7l7. 

^Honour Forman, daughter of Arthur and Honour Forman, born January 
30, 1721. 



'Register of St. Paul's Parish, Kent Co., Md. p. 271. 



46 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Robert Foreman, son of Arthur and Elizabeth Foreman, born Jan. 12, 1723. 
^James Foreman, son of Arthur Foreman by Rebecca his wife, born Feb. 11. 

1743-4. 

^Mary Forman, daughter of Arthur Foreman by Elizabeth, born Dec. 22, 1745. 

^acob Foreman, son of Arthur Foreman by Elizabeth his wife, born May 
25, 1748. 

*Sarah Foreman, daughter of Arthur Foreman by Elizabeth his wife, bom 

Aug. 6, 1750. 

^Rachel Forman, daughter of William and Anne, born Oct. 29, 1729. 
"Anne Forman, daughter of William and Anne, born Jan. 29, 1731. 
'Josepli Forman married June 30, 1796, Elizabeth McKeel. 
«Laid out for Ralph Blackliall a prcll of land called Blackhall's Hermitage 
lying on the N. side of Chester River. Beging. at a marked Oak standing near the 
river side at the upper end of a great marsh and rung, for breadth down the river 
] 50 p's. to anotlier marked oak standg. at the lower end of the af 'd marsli and with 
a line drawn from the s'd oak for length N. N. W. 320 p's and with a line drawn 
from the end of the N. N. W. line for breadth E. N. E. 150 p's and witli a line 
drawn S. S. W. from the end of the E. N. E. line 320 p's to the first bounded oak 
cout'g 300 A's. W. H. 

«300-0. 6. O.-Blackhalls Hermitage. 

Surv'd 3 June 1670 for 
Ralph Blackball on the 
north side Chester nigh 
the River Side, 
200 a possest'" by Edward Walden 100 a. 
by Edward Forman. 
Blackhalls Hermitage, 100 acres, was owned by Edward Forman in 1707; 
from him it passed to Robert Forman. 

By will, Sept. 2, 1711, probated March 15, 1719, Robt. Foreman devises: "To 
son Aurther 100 acres, upper part of Blackhalls Hermitage. 
Annapolis Wills, Lib. T. B. i., folio ^41. 
By will, Jan. 26, 1756, pi'obated Nov. 7, 1757, Arthur Forman devises: "To 
my son Francis Forman, my dwelling, plantation 100 acres." 
Annapolis Wills., Lib. B. T. 2, folio 414. 
By will, prob. Feb. 13, 1758, Francis Forman devises: "To my son Arthur 
100 acres in Kent, Blackhalls Hermitage, failing heirs of Arthur, to my son Francis 
Forman." Annapolis Wills, Lib. B. T., 2jolio 433. 

"1200-1. 4. 0.— Royston. Surv'd 12 Feb. 1672 for Richard Royston on the 
S. Side Chester, att a marked oak by Riv'r possest by John Hamer and Wm. 
Sparks."" 

'Register of Shrewsbury Parish, Kent Co., Md., p. 44 (of original) p. 253 of copy. ^p. 260 of copy. 'P. 267 of 
copy. *P. 274 of copy. ^Register of St. Peter's Parish, Talbot Co., Md., p. 130. «P. 136. 'P. 316. 'June .3d, 
1690. Folo. 399, Blackhalls Hermitage, 300 A's. 'Book of Surveys (now at Ashby, Talcot Co., Md.) Wm. Hemsley, 
Surveyor. ' ""Possessed by,"' >fec., means at the time of the revision of the land books. (Completed in 1707.) 
"Rent roll of Kent Co." P. 29. (.\n old manuscript Record in Md. Hist. Soc. ''Rent role Queen Anne's Co., p. 
209. (Unp. Records in Md. Hist. Soc.) 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 



47 



" Feby. 5th, 1672-3. 'Laid out for Richard Royston a pcell of land lying on 

Royston the S. Side of Chester River. Begin'g at a marked white 

1200 A's. oak stand'g by the River Side by a small creek and run'g 

No. 194. up the River E. by N. 360 p's to a marked pine tree stand'g 

by the River Side on the lower side of a marsh then S. by E. 503 p's then W. by 

S. 360 p's then N. by W. 503 p's to the first marked oak on the N. with Chester 

River. Coutg. 1200 acres." 



Royston Surv. Feb. 12, 1672, for Richard 



^" Acres yriy- rent- 

1200 1.4. 

Royston on the S. Side Chester, at a marked oak by the River. 
Poss'd by John Hamer and William Sparks." 



3" 200 John Hamer Senr. from Jas. Wyatt Senr. Mar. 24, 1718. 
467 Christopher Wilkinson from Edwd. Burne & Ux'a April 29, 1724. 
475 Christopher Wilkinson, Junr. from Christopher Wilkinson, Senr. 1729. 
100 Thomas Wilkinson from Edward Burne &. Ux Oct. 12, 1725. 
567 Matthew Docwra from Franc's fforman & Ux. Oct. 19, 1731. 
567 Franc's fforman from Matthew Docwra *te Ux. Oct. 19, 1731. 
200 Jas. Wyatt from Wm. Sparks & Ux and Jas. Hamer & Ux Ap. 16, 1707. 
100 Geo. Ayers from Thos. Wilkinson, Aug. 24, 1737. 

100 Geo. Ayers to his two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret equally p. Will. 
16 Aug. 1740. 

*475 Sweatnam Burn from Christopher Wilkinson, June 7th, 1744. 
50 Samuel Massey from Henry Reeveland <fe Eliza, his wife, Aug. 18, 1744. 
50 Elizabeth Coleman from Marg't Coleman Sept. 11, 1747." 



^ Acres 
200 



Yrly. rent. 
0. 8. 0. 



Fishingham, Surv'd 27 July, 1678 for Robt. 
Smith on the So. Side Chester Rvr. on the East Side Corsica Creek, possest by 
Arthur Macdaniel for John Swetnam's lieir(s). 



^Acres 
"200 



Yrly. rent. 
0. 8. 0. 



Lewstern, Surv'd 12 Octor. 1704 for Robt. Fore- 
man, lying on the north Side of Chester River, Beg. att a bound red oak standing 
by a small branch, running out of the Lowermost branch of Morgan's Creek. 



'ThiB Survey of Royston is in an old Survey book, copied about 150 years ago for Judge Robert Goldsborough 
)f "Myrtle Grove," Talbot Co.; Miss Dandridge, whose mother was Miss Goldsborough, found it in moving some 
looks from one of the old library shelves to another. (Oct., 1900.) 

2Rent Roll 2 Talbot and Queen Anne's, p .S80. (MS. Records in Annapolis.) 

'Rent Roll 2 opposite page 180. Transfers of the tract: " Royston."' 

^This part of the original tract of " Royston " Sweatnam Burn devised to Arthur Forman. 

'Rent Roll of Queen Anne's Co., p. 214. '^Rent Roll of Kent Co., p. 65. 



48 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

WILLS RECORDED IN ANNAPOLIS.^ 

11). (Piior to 1777 all Maryland Wills were ordered to be recorded iu 

Annapolis.) lib. folio. 

1719 Foreman, Robert T. J^ 1 341 

1757 " Arthur B. T. 2 4U'^ 

1758 " Francis " " '" 433^ 

1754 " John " "1 362* 



WILL OF JOHN FORMAN.' 

" I, John Forman, of Kent Co., Planter ... All my estate to my son- 
in-law, Joseph Bntcher, as executor . . . he is to give to my daughters, Sarah 
and Beatrice about five pounds apiece . . . unto my two sons, John and Fred- 
erick (support and education if they do not learn trades) 

John Forman, 

James Calder, Dept. Com. 

^JoHN Forman m. prob. Dec. 14, 1754. 

(Ken t Co.) | 

(Dau.) Forman m. Joseph Butcher. 
Sarah Forman. 
Beatrice Forman. 
John Forman. 
Frederick Forman. 

20. "Died Feb. 17, 1840, at the residence of his son Edwin Forman in 
Worcester Co., Md., the Rev. John Forman of the Protestant Episcopal church, 
aged 66."^ 

Rev. John Forman became the minister of St. Michael's parish, in Talbot Co., 
Md., in 1815. He was a native of Kent Co., born 1773. He was educated at Wash- 
ington College, Chestertown, and in 1792 was a teachiu- in mathematics there. He 
then studied law, but on his marriage (to a Miss Jones) he s(;ttled on a farm where 
he continued until her death in 1811. He then turned his attention to the 
ministry, and gave notice, Sept. 2, 1812, that he would apply for orders. He 
studied for the ministry under the directions of Rev. Geo. Dashiell, then of St. 
Peter's, Baltimore, and was ordained deacon by Bishop Claggett, Aug. 3, 1814, when 
41 years old. Before the next convention, May, 1815, he had come to St. Michael's 
parish. He had been elected for two years. 

After his marriage he devoted himself a good deal to his farming pursuits in 
Worcester, but preached pretty regularly at St. James chapel in All Saints parish, 
cind was on friendly terms with his neighbors and acquaintances. 

^Wills Annapolis B. S. 1, 362. ^Index 1. ^Also in Centreville. ■'Also in Chestertown. 
*Will of Jno. Forman, prob. Dec. 14, 1754 — Annapolis. 

'■"Religious Annals of Talbot Co." (Dr. Harrison), Vols. Ill, VIII, II. "Clergymen of Maryland," (Dr. 
Allen.) Md. Gazette, Feb. 29, 1840, (obituary). 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 49 

In 1830 lie removed to (and had charge of) All Hallows parish in Anne 
Arundel Co., but two years later he returned to Worcester, where he died in the 
winter of 1840. In announcing his death to the convention. Dr. Wyatt (Pres. of 
the convention) said: "... his active mind led him to the attainment of much 
and varied knowledge . . . but infirm health and growing years had for a long 
time caused him to retire from parochial duties." 

The descendants of Rev. John Forman are still living in Worcester Co., Md. 



21. LETTERS OP ADMINISTRATION RECORDED IN BALTIMORE. 

1804 Foreman, William L 89 3 

1816 " Elijah 99 6 

1817 " David 101 6 

1821 " Francis H 89 7 

1833 " Leonard 99 9 

1836 Forman, Jane 83 10 

1840 Foreman, Leonard 91 11 

1841 " Christian 95 11 

1856 Forman, P. D. Irenens 107 15 

1856 " Sophia 107 15 

1860 •' E. Frances 53 16 

1860 " C. Eveline 54 16 

1863 " D.Joshua 54 17 

1864 " Susan 56 17 

1866 " Thomas 63 18 

1867 " Catherine 65 18 

[Liber 7, folio 89, Baltimore Record of Letters of Adm'n shows that on Sept. 
21, 1821, Elizabeth Forman took out letters on the estate of "Francis H. Foreman, 

Intestate,'" her bondsmen being Thos. Boyle and James Barker; no returns were 
made.] 



22. WILLS RECORDED IN BALTIMORE. 

FOL. LIB. 

1833 Forman, Leonard 355 14 

1836 " Jane 485 15 

1840 " Leonard. 86 18 

1850 " Valentine 125 26 

1856 " Sophia 209 27 

1858 " Joshua D 171 28 

1867 " Catherine 206 34 

1875 " E.Ann 472 41 

1857 " Francis 62 28 



Index 1766-1819. Index 1772-1851. Index 1851-1881. Index 1851-1881. Index 1. 



50 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

23. WILL OF LEONARD FOREMAN OF BALT. CO.> 

prob. July 23, 1833, names: 
My sister-ill-law, Christiana Foreman, niece, Anna Mary Sellers, wife of 
George Sellers. . . . 

24. WILL OF LEONARD FOREMAN " 

of Bait. City, names : 

Wife Ann C. Forman. . . . 

To gr. son Henry F. Fowler, part of plantation at north of Rock Creek ; re- 
version, 

To Elleanor Foreman, who is to have the other part of the plantation. 

To dan. Racliael Williams, wife of Elijah Williams, tract called Procters 
Hole, 170 acres. . . . 

gr. son Leonard Foreman. . . . 

To three gr. dans., Racliael, Margaret and Cliarlotte, dans, of my son, the 
late Elijah Foreman, $200 each ; 

Exrs. two gr. sons Leonard Foreman and John Henry Crane. 

Dated Jan. 15, 1838 : prob. Sept. 8, 1840. 



25. WILL OF VALENTINE FORMAN, of the city of Balt.^ 

To son Valentine Forman, 
" dau. Catherine " 
" gr. son George " 
" son Samuel " 

" " George W. 

prob. March 12, 1851. 



26. WILL OF JOSHUA D. FOREMAN, (Balt.)^ 

"All estate to wife Rebecca;" ".son Henry;" "son John D." "Other children" 
are mentioned by the testator, but not by name. prob. 1858. 



27. WILL OF CATHERINE FOREMAN, (Balt.)^ 

" Daughter Rachel Ann Sanders," 

Susanna Rebecca Emich," 

Jane Foreman," 

Sarah Elizabeth Caulk." 

prob. July 4, 1867. 



(I u 



^Baltimore Lib. 14, 355. ^Baltimore Lib. 18—86. ^Lib. 26—125. ^Baltimore Lib. 27, folio 171. *Lib. 34—206. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 51 



58. BITS OF FORMAN PEDIGREE. (From Bait. Wills.) 

'Leonard Forman m. Ann C. 

of Bait 
d. 1840. 

r 



Rachel Forman m. Elijah Williams. 
Forman m. 



h 



Leonard Foreman. 
Elijah Foreman m. 



h 



Rachel Foreman. 
Margaret Foreman. 
Charlotte Foreman. 

Daughter m. Mr. Crane. 



John Henry Crane. 



Daughter m. Mr. Fowler. 
I 



I 

Henry F. Fowler. 

Eleanor Forman. 
29. Forman m. Catherine, d. 1867.^ 



r- 



Rachel Ann Forman m. Sanders. 
Susanna Rebecca Forman m. Emich. 
Sarah Elizabeth Forman m. Caulk. 
Jane Forman. 

30. Fi'om Newspapers, &c. 

In old St. Paul's graveyard, Bait., are some Forman tombstones: 
Thomas Forman, died July 29, 1801 or 1804, aged 1 year, 8 months. 
Joshua Forman, died July 20, 1805, aged 1 year 7 months. 
Elisha Forman, died Dec. 18, 1808, aged 1 year 1 mouth. 
Rebecca Forman, died Sept. 19, 1806, aged 1 year 5 months. 
Daniel Forman, died Nov. 23, 1821, aged 3 years 5 months. 



iWill of Leonard Forman, 1838, prob. 1840, Bait. ■^W\\\ of Catherine Forman, prob. July 4, 1867, Bait. 



52 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY 



Laws passed at the last session of General Assembly of Maryland. • • • 
An act empowering tlie administrator of Frederick Foreman, late t>f Qneen Anne's 
County to sell a tract of land. 

Md. Journal & Bait. Advert izer, Feb. /^, ijSs- 

1794, July 15' . . . Foreman, Jr.. collector U. S. reTeuue, N. E. 

cor. Market and Frederick streets. 

AId.Jonr}ial, Sept. ii, 1794. 



31. 



AVILLS RECORDED IN CENTREVILLE. 



FOLIO. 

260 

Henrietta S. C. 7 321 

Alcey R. W. 1 44 

Benjamin T.C.E. 1 23 

Ezekiel " '' 1 227 

John AV.H.No. 3 237 

Mary T.C.E. 1 77 



L115KR 

1785 Forman, John T. W. 1 

1791 
1792 
1798 
1823 
1798 
1817 



33. ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS, RECORDED IN CENTREVILLE. 



AUM. KEY. 



LIliEU. 



KOLIO. 



1794 Forman, Samuel 1 5 



1796 
1797 
1798 
1799 
1803 
1807 
1800 
1816 
1823 
1826 
1830 
1860 
1868 
1884 
1890 



John 1 9 

" 1 14 

" 1 20 

" 1 24 

Stephen 1 38 

Sweatnam 1 50 

Jesse 1 56 

Benjamin 1 77 

Ezekiel II 2 

Ann " 29 

Jesse '• 46 

George W " 72 

Wm. H (emsley) " 130 

Marcia R " 206 

Henry " 84 



33. 



BENJAMIN FOREMAN'S WILL.^ 



"I, Benj. Foreman, of Q. A. County , . . To my son Amos, my daughter 
Sally Ann Foreman and Martha Ann Foreman (shall be given by my Executor as 
much money when they arrive at lawful age as each of my other two sons, John 



'Name not legible in old paper. -Wills Queen Anne's T. C. E. 1— p. 23. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 53 

Foreman and Henry Foreman shall receive out of their gi-andmother's property 
which she left by last Will" . . . " To my wife Ann all my property during 
widowhood ; if she marries to have one third of estate." 
Executrix, wife Ann. 

Aug. 20, 1815. prob. Jan. 6, 1816. 



34. WILLS RECORDED IN CHESTERTOWN. 

1754 Forman, John . . . (also in Annapolis) 

1757 " Arthur. 

1762 " Robert. 

1792 " Charles. 

1797 " David. 

1804 " Bartholomew. 



35. THE SWEATNAM FAMILY. 

Table of Descent. 
Swettenham, (of Cheshire, England) m. 

i I 1 1 

Richard Swettenham;^ Edward; Susannah; Elizabeth; Daughter; 

(or Sweatnam), of ^- 1698. High m. Sweet. m. Worrell m. Damer 

Talbot Co., Md., im- Sheriff ^ of Kent, j j or 

mi- 1677 Justice 1683-1689, 1696- /\ /\ Darmor 

>;/''■ ,^^^ 97; 'Md. Arch '^ 

of the Peace 1689. x///., ^^_^. Justice 

Md. Arch VIII., 14^. of the Peace 1693. 

Capt. of Foot (Talbot Capt. 1695. Buried 

Co. Military Force), March 15, 1698. 

Sept. 4, 1689. Md. ^^S- ^f- Paul's, 

A 1 \^rrr T\J•^^ Kent. Will prob. 

^;Y^A///.,^^j.W,ll ^j^^.^^^ [g^g_ 

prub. Jujy 21, 1697. ^Amiap:) Lib. H. 
Lzb. K., i6g^-g8. 24g. Inventory 

{An nap). XX VII., 183.' 

m. 1st Mary (ar. in Md. with him, 1677.) 

j 2d Jane. 

1. John Sweatnam m. Elizabeth m. 2d Arthur McDaniel. 

of Kent Co., Md., |,^ 

b. in Eng. prior to | 

1677; d. 1708. Admn. Hannah m. Matthew Dockery. 
XXIX., J 6. Owner of Elizabeth m. Francis Forman.' 
land in Kent Co., Royston j 



1200 a. Providence 400 a. j — — [ j""^ ] [~ [" 

Fishingham 200 a. ^John. ^Arthur. 



'In some early papers he used this form of the name; later he wrote it Sweatnam. -Md. Arch. V. 543. ^OldKent. 
^The Inv. of Kdward Sweatnam showed him to be a rich man. Among his silver was: "1 Tankard, 1 Silver 
Dram cup," &c. *Mrs. Wilson descends from John Forman. 'Mrs. Dismukes descends from Arthur Forman. 



54 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

2. William Sweatnam m. Sarah. 

d. 1720. Owner of j 

land in Queen | 

Anne's, <fec.; "Green Spring," Esther ni. Banbury. 

"Chesterfield," tfec, <fec., sheriff Sarah. 

of Q. A. Co., 171(); will dated 

May 23, 1719; prob. July 3, 1720. 

SWEATNAM. (Maryland.) 

'Arms : Ar on a bend vert three sioades of the fields, blade sa. 

^Crest : a porcupine's head erased az. guttee d'eau, armed and collared or. 

The above arms are those of the family of Swettenham, of Cheshire, Eng- 
land, from which the Maryland family of Sweatnam descends. In Maryland Records 
the name is variously written: Swettenham, Swetenham, Swetnam, Sweatnam, (the 
latter spelling being the one in general use.) 

=^"The Early Settlers List" in Annapolis shows that Richard Sweatnam 
immigrated to Maryland in 1677, bringing with him his wife Mary and his son 
John.* Edward Sweatnam, his brother, had arrived in 1673.'* 

William Sweatnam, who came in 1675, was not a brother of Kidiard and 
Edward.'' 

By the "Act of Settlement" every man coming to Maryland "to inhabit" could 
claim fifty acres for himself and fifty acres for each person whom he transported. 
The original Record of these persons and the Land Warrant given tliem is in the 
Land Office in Annapolis and constitutes what is known as the " Early Settlers 
Lists." 

The entry concerning Richard Sweatnam in this Record is as follows :' 

" Richard Sweatnam of St. Marie's County proved then his rights to two 
hundred acres of land for transporting himself and Mary, his wife, John, his son, 
and Jonas Screws, into this province to inhabite. 

p V d before me Willi Calvert. 

" I doe hereby assign over unto Mr. Nic painter his heirs and assigns the above 
four rights to land; witness my hand 20th September, 1677. 

Rich. Sweatnam." 

From St. Mary's, Richard Sweatnam removed to Talbot Co., on the Eastern 
Shore of Maryland (then including the present county of Queen Anne's) and seems to 
have been there a wealthy and prominent man. In the year 1689 the name " Richard 
Sweatnam" is signed to "The Address of the Justices of the County of Talbot to 
the King";* and in the same year he was one of the gentlemen appointed "for 
regulating the Affairs of the Militia in Talbot County.'" On the faded yellow page 
of the old Record is the following commission : 

"Mr. Richard Sweatnam, Capt. of a foote Company in the roome of Capt. 
Kennimon."^ 



1 Berry's Cyclopedia Heraldica. -^Fairbairn's Crests. «" Early Settlers," Annap. ^Lib. 15, TA? ; Lib. 15, 425. 
'Lib. 17, fol. 611 ; Lib. 15, 330. "Adm. Accts. (Annap.), Lib. XVIII. , A. 16. 'Lib. 15, 553. "Maryland Archives, 
vol. 8, p. 143. "By this service a descendant of Capt. Rich'd Sweatnam is rendered eligible to "The Soc. of 
Colonial Wars," " The Md. Soc. of Colonial Dames," &c. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 55 

By grant and purchase Capt. Sweatnam acquired large tracts of land, and at 
Ms death in 1697 he divided between his sons, John and William, over five thousand 
acres. To John was devised " Royston " (at that time 1200 acres) part of which was 
inherited by his daughter Elizabeth, and was for many years the home of a branch 
of the Forman family. On part of a tract of land devised by Capt. Sweatnam to his 
son William was afterwards built the present town of Centreville,' the county seat 
of Queen Anne's. This tract was known as "Chesterfield," and lay on the south 
side of Chester River and north side of Corsica Creek. 

In 1727 (Nov. 7) William Sweatnam's daughter (Esther Banbury, a widow,) 
leased the tract to Matthew Mason ; for the first year the rent was to be " one j^epper 
corn," afterwards "for nine years 600 pounds of tobacco annually." Chesterfield 
afterwards passed into the ownership of the Nicholson family. '^The grist mill 
situated on Chesterfield was known as Chester Mill (which was the name first used 
for the County seat, Centreville being substituted for it in 1789). The town was 
not built as early as was proposed. In the Minutes of Assembly of 1707 is the 
following : 

"April 1, 1707 . . . Resolv'd, a Towne be erected on the land of Mr. 
William Sweatnam in Coursivall (Corsica) Creek in Chester River." . . . This 
town was afterwards abandoned, but the presumption is warranted that the location 
of the proposed town was at or near the present town of Centreville. Varying 
county lines threw the Sweatnam and Forman estates into the counties of Kent and 
Queen Anne's (cut fnmi Talbot in 1706) as well as in Talbot, and the Records of all 
of these counties must be referred to in following the transfers &c., of Capt. Sweat- 
nam's landed estate. "Royston," lying on the south side of Chester River was in 
Queen Anne's Co. 

Capt. Richard Sweatnam married a second time, after his arrival in Maryland; 
the name of his second wife was "Jane," but her surname is not recorded nor is it 
known whether she had children. 

A few extracts from the old Records may be of interest to the descendants of 
Capt. Richard Sweatnam, and are therefore made and here given. 

^" License granted to Capt. Richard Sweatnam of Talbot County to keep ordi- 
nary at Talbot Court House* for the entertainment and Accommodation of the 
Justices of the said Court and other persons officers and Sutors thereunto he being a 
person of Suflicieut ability and duely qualified for the same." 



WILL OF CAPT. RICHARD SWEATNAM. 

(Recorded in Annapolis, Lit). K, 1695-98.) 

(Abstract.) "I, Richard Sweatnam, of Talbot Co., in the province of Mary- 
land. . . . 

Item. I give to sonne Jno. the plantacon whereon he now liveth called 

Providence^ . . . 400 acres. 



'From old Records in the Court House in Centreville is compiled this little sketch of the Sweatnam and 
Forman families. =Hist. of Queen Anne's Co., by Fredk. Emory. ^Lib. K., 1692-1694; fol. 25i. ^Now "Easton," 
Talbot Co. ^Nov. 28, 1800, Sweatnam Forman (descendant) sold part of Providence to Geo. Primrose.— CsntrmHe 
Deeds, Index p. 359. 



56 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Item. To my said souue J no. Sweatiiam all that tract or parcell of land 
lying upon Chester' River and now in 'Kent County, containing twelve hundred 
acres of land, formerly taken up by one Ricliard Royston, and called by the name 
of Royston, to him and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten forever. And if it 
should happen that my said sonne sluudd die not having issue of his body lawfully 
begotten that then the s'd land shall descend to my soune William, and the heirs 
of his body lawfully begt)tten, and if s'd sonne William should happen to die not 
having issue of his body lawfully begotten, that then the said land to go to my 
beloved sister, Elizabeth Worrilow and her heii's forever. 

Item. To sonne William (under 20 years of age at this time) tlic following 
tracts of land: 

^Green Spring, 650 acres. 

Abington, 200 acres. 

Part of Wilton, 60 acres. 

Bod well, 250 acres. 

Indian Neck, 170 acres. 

Hemsleys ffarme, 348 acres. 

Paxton's lott, 100 acres. 

Poplar Ridge, 400 acres. 

Hopton, 300 acres. 

Downes's farme, 300 acres. 

Bridgewater, 300 acres. 

Hackton. 250 acres. 

Moorefields, 124 acres. 

Brownes Lott, 200 acres. 

(The reversion of this land, 3052 acres, should William not have children, 
was to go to John ; failing issue of John, the land was to go to Elizabeth Worrilow, 
Capt. Sweatuam's " deare sister.") 

. . . My well beloved brother Edward Sweatnam and Mr. Hans Hanson 
to be my Whole and Sole Executors. . . . 

In witness whereof (&c) July 1, 1697. . . . 

Richard Sweatnam." 

This Will was probated in Talbot County, July 21, 1697, and also recorded 
in Annapolis. 

(Abstract)* 

"March 1, 1698-9, I, Edward Sweatnam, of Kent County . . . To my 
deare Couzen Sussanah Darraor and allsoe to my deare couzen *Eliza Damer 20£ . . . 

To Loving couzens ^John and William Sweatnam 5£ . . . 

To my God-daughter, Ann Tilden, one gold ring ... 

To the parish in which I now live .... 20£ . . . 



'Later determination of County boundaries threw this land into Queen Anne's Co. -Description of these 
tracts is given in detail. ^ Wills, Annapolis, H. 1(588-1700, fol. 249. ^Niece. 'Nephews (the term cousin was often 
thus used in old papers.) 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 57 

Kemainder of estate to my Deare sisters, Elizabeth Worrell and Susannah 
Sweet, and either or both of their children to be equally divided between said 
sisters . . . 

Exr's Ellas King and Charles Tilden, my neighbors. 

Prob. March 20, 1698. E. Sweatnam. 

(Abstract)^ 

"In the name of God amen, May ye 23rd 1719. I, William Sweatnam, of 
Queen Anne's County . . . 

To my well beloved Wife, Sarah, during her natural life the tract of land 
whereon I now live called Chesterfield . . . 

To my Daughter Ester . . . Green Spring, 650 a . . . and Pocton Lott, 150 
a . . . Hopton, 300 a . . . 

To my Daughter Sarah . . . Sweatnam's Hope, 120 acres; Hemsleys Farm, 
348 acres; part of Albinton, 100 a.; Poplar Ridge, 400 acres . . . 

To (an unborn child) Chesterfield, after my wife's death, 900 acres; also 
Providence, 400 ; likewise Sweatnam's Lott, 55 acres . . . 

. . . (Tracts of land designated) to be sold at wife Sarah's discretion, Bridge 
300 a., W. Cowffields and W. Cowffields Addition, 124 a., Downs Lott, 200, Tryangle, 
551, . . . for support of herself and the children . . . 

Exe'r Wife Sarah ... In Witness (&c) W. Sweatnam. 

Witnesses, 

W. Clayton, \s . Carmichael . . . 

prob. July 3, 1720. 



Captain Richard Sweltenham, the immigrant, came from Cheshire, England, 
to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1677. He was a wealtliy and a prominent man. 

He was in the service of the King of England, during the second period of 
the reign of the House of Stuart, when Cliarles tlie Second, son of Charles the First, 
was on the throne, from 1660 to 1685. He entertained the King's ofiicers, and held 
many places of high trust. He was Captain of a Foote Company, with a commis- 
sion direct from the King. He owned five thousand acres of land at the time of his 
death, 1697. 

In the year 1689, the name of Captain Richard Sweatnam is signed to the 
"Address of tlie Justices of the County of Talbot to the King." The Talbot County 
referred to is in Maryland: and the King, William the Third. James the Second, 
second son of Charles the First had abdicated in 1688. Richard Sweatnam had 
served the Commonwealth, Cliarles the First, James the Second, Charles the Second, 
and then in 1688, William the Third, Prince of Orange. These services to his own 
country and in the provinces entitle his descendants to become eligible to the 
"Society of Colonial Wars," and the "Maryland Society of Colonial Dames." 

Captain Richard Sweatnam left two sons, John and William. John Sweat- 
nam died leaving no son, only two daughters. William Sweatnam died in 1720, 



iWills, Queen Anne's Co., S. C. 1, fol. 160. 



58 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

leaving no sons, only two daughters. The two brothers died comparatively young. 
Thus passed away a name borne by a noble family ; leaving a void never to lie filled ! 
The Mr. Hans Hanson mentioned was the ancestor of Miss Jeanuett Hanson, 
who married Mr. Gibson, a man of great intelligence and learning, a resident of 
Washington City, D. C. He died of yellow fever in St. Josephs, on the Gulf coast 
of Florida, about the year 1840, when that town was practically depopulated by this 
epidemic. Mrs. Gibson moved to Quincy, Florida, and was an intimate neighbor 
and friend of Hon. Arthur I. Forman. Some of her descendants are still living in 
the old home in Quincy, Florida. 



WILL OF SWEATNAM BUKN.^ 

30. In the name of God Amen. I, Sweatnaiii Burn of Quec-n Anne's County, 
being sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for 
it, do hereby ordain this to be my last Will and Testament in words and form fol- 
lowing. And first I Bequeath my soul to the hands of Almighty God who gave it 
and my Body to tlie Ground to be buried at the Discretion of my Executors iu 
decent Burial according to the Custom of the Church of England. 

Item. I give and bequeath unto Arthur Forem. son of Francis Foreman of 
Queen Anne's County, all that part of the tract of land known by the name of 
"Royston" on the north side leading from the Mil] by the Warrented Road to the 
West part of the Tract, likewise my Cart and Oxen, Two feather beds with tlie fur- 
niture thereto belonging, one Horse known by the name of ye Dray, one mare named 
Peggy, one mare named Pigeon, likewise in equal part of all the Cattle, sheep and 
hogs and geese, ducks and turkeys, one colt named Heroe. 

Item. I give and bequeath to John Foreman one Bed and furniture. Half 
the Cattle remaining besides the oxen, one Horse called Blackbird, one Horse called 
Button, one mare called Fancy, one called Gock, luilf the Sheep, half the Hogs, and 
in equal part of the Geese and Turkeys. 

Item. I give and bequeath to Margaret Foreman. Daughter of Jolm Fore- 
man, all that part of tlie Land called Royston, lying on the south side of tlie War- 
rented Road to her and her Heirs forever. 

Item. I give and bequeath to John Foreman two negroe(s) men, one named 
Jack and the other Roston. 

Item. I give and bequeath to Arthur Foreman one negro Wench named 
Beck, one negro boy named Ned, one negro Girl named Patt, one seven year Servant 
named James Jean, one eighteen months Servant named Thomas Deruce, witli all 
my wearing apparel and Iron and Wooden household furniture, with the Plows and 
Harrows, the said John Foreman and Arthur Foreman to pay all my debts and 
funeral expenses equally between them and like cost in the Administration and 
to sell my old Wheat and Corn to pay my Debt and I do hereby renounce all other 
Wills ever before by me made Ratifying and Conflj-ming this to be my last Will and 
Testament. 



'Wills, Annapolis W. D. 1, 232. 



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59 



111 Witness whereof (&c) this tenth day of January one tliousand seven Imn- 
dred and sixty-eight. 

Sweatnam Burn, his . . . i seal! i 
Signed, sealed, (<fec.,) in the Presence of - - 

John Ticthell, 

Lazarus Ticthell, 

John Whittington. prob. 2d Feb. 1768. 

^Feb. 28, 1789. Tripartite Indenture made Oct. 4, 1788, between Sweatnam 
Foreman, Mary Foreman, widow of Arthur Foreman, late of Q. A. and Jesse eldest 
son of the afs'd Arthur and Mary ... the afs'd Sweatnam for and in consider- 
ation of 450 pounds current money doth give grant (<fec.) unto the aforesaid Mary 
Foreman all that tract of land lying in Queen Anne's county being part of a tract 
of land called Royston which Sweatnam Burn by his will devised to the within 
named Arthur Foreman for life as is contended by the aforesaid Sweatnam Foreman 
and for which s'd lands an ejectment is now depending in the General Court of the 
E. S. for the recovery and reversion of the said Mary during her natural life . . 

and then to the said Jesse. c x -n rr, ,-, 

Swetnem Foreman. [Seal] 

Mary Forman. [Seal] 

Before us also came Hannah, wife of s'd Sweatnam, (cfec). . . . 

^March 19, 1802. . . . Between Sweatnam Foreman of Queen Anne's Co., 

of the first part and Mary Foreman of the same place of the other i^art. 

The s'd Sweatnam doth grant, bargain and sell (&g.) unto the said Mary Foreman 

all that mill and mill seat lying or being in Queen Anne's county . . . being 

situated on and composed of a part of a tract of land called "Royston" and on the 

head of a creek called Royston's Creek now in the possession of the said Sweatnam 

Foreman and formerly belonging to a certain Samuel Massey. ... In witness 

whereof ... o + „ -li a 

Sweatnam J^orman.'* 

*Queen Anne's county to-wit: Be it remembered that on the fourth day of 
August, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, the following deed was brought to be 
recorded, to-wit: This indenture made the 16th day of June in the year of our Lord, 
one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, between John S. Forman of Kent 
county and state of Maryland, of the one part and Charles Hendrix of Queen Anne's 
county, and state of Maryland of the other part witnesseth that the said John S. 
Forman for and in consideration of the sum of two thousand dollars current money 
of Maryland to him in hand paid by the said Charles Hendrix before the sealing 
and delivery of these presents ... by the presents doth grant, bargain and 
sell (&c.) unto the said Charles Hendrix his heirs and assigns all tliat part of a 
tract^ called Royston, which is described by the following lines metes and bounds 
to-wit: 



iQueen Anne's Co. Records S. T. W. 1., fol. 210. ^Qupen Anne's Records S. T. W. G, 34. _ 

^Differences in spelling the same name in the same paper, was by no means uncommon in early days. This 

name is as often spelt with the e as without it. ^Records of Queen Anne's Co., T. M. 3, fol. 202. 'Of land situate 

lying and being in Q. A. Co., being part of a tract. 



60 



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Beginning at a stone standing at the end of the second line of said tract 
called "Royston" and thence running with the third line of said tract and with tli.' 
main road south sixty-five degrees and lliirty minutes West three hundred and sixty 
perches to a stone at'the end of the third line of said ti-act and thence North forty- 
five degrees and forty-five minutes East two hundred and ninety-eight perches to a 
stone and North thirty-one degrees and tliirty minutes East eighty-two perches to a 
stone and North eighty degrees East twenty-three perches; and south seventy-five 
degrees East eight perches and North eighty-two degrees East thirteen perclies to 
the aforesaid second line of Royston and thence with the said line to the first place 
of beginning containing two hundred and thirty-eight acres of land more or less 
together with all and singular the buildings and improvements woods ways waters 
water courses rights liberties privileges hereditaments and appurtenances whatso- 
ever thereunto belonging and the reversions and remainders rents issues and profits 
thereof and all the estate right title and interest whatsoever of him the said John 
S. Forman . . . unto the said Charles Hendrix his heirs Executors and admin- 
istrators. . . 

In witness whereof the said John S. Forman hath hereunto subscribed his 
name and affixed his seal the day and year herein before written. 

, , ,. , . J, J, John S. Forman. ; seal. : 
Signed, sealed and delivered m the presence oi - - 

Francis A. Rochester . . . John Patrick. 

On the back of the original Deed was then endorsed to \vit : Received on 

the day of the date of the within Deed of and from the within named Charles 

Hendrix, the sum of two thousand dollars current money of Maryland, being the 

consideration mentioned in the said Deed. John S Forman 

Maryland, Queen Anne's County, to wit: on this 16th day of June 1823, 
personally appears John S. Forman . . . and acknowledged this within Deed or 
instruminit of writing to be his act and Deed . . . and now at the same time also 
personally appears Susana Forman, wife of the said John S. Forman and acknowl- 
edged the said Deed . . . Taken and certified the Day and year above written. 

Francis A. Rochester, 
John Patrick. 

FAMILY OF HON. ELBERT E. FARMAN. 

37. William Forman settled in Maryland in the latter part of the l7th 
century. Michael Stuppel and Stephen Bernerd of Loudon, mai'iners, received a 
warrant for 1750 acres on account of the transportation of 35 persons into the colony 
to inhabit, among whom was " Wm. fforman." It was conjectured for some time 
that William was the son of Robert who immigrated in 1674, but the discovery of a 
deed dated Feb. 8, 1733, to James Calder, in which it is stated that William, the son 
of Robert, died Avithout issue, shows that the father of the William in question is 
still to be sought for. There is no evidence of his descent from Robert of Long- 
Island. William's son Joseph, b. Oct. 17, 1699, d. May 6, 1753. had a son John, b. 
Sept. 16, 1739. John Foreman, as his name seems to have been spelled, volunteered 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 61 

for the Frencli War at the age of sixteen. After serving in the army for eight 

years, he witli two companions settled in New Hampshire in 1763. Soon afterwards 

he married and settled in the town of Bath on the Connecticut River. He had nine 

sons and died in 1792. During his residence in Bath the spelling of the family 

name was changed from Foreman to Farman, to which latter spelling all but one 

branch of his descendants have adhered. A representative of this branch of the 

family is Mr. F. W. Forman of Minneapolis. Rosivcll Farman, eldest son of John 

Foreman (or Farman), b. 1765, removed in 1805 from Bath to Oneida Co., N. Y., and 

a year later to Oswego Co. Zadok Farman, son of Roswell, b. 1791, married Martha 

Dix of Wethersfield, Conn., and had six children, the fifth of whom was Elbert Eli 

Farman, b. at New Haven, Oswego Co., N. Y., April 23, 1881. 

Elbert E. Farman graduated at Amherst, 1855, taking the degree of M. A. 

three years later. He became a student of law at Warsaw, N. Y., and while still a 

student took an active part in the Fremont campaign of 1856. After his admission 

to the bar, he was for some years one of the owners and the business manager of the 

Western Neiu Yorker of Warsaw, which developed into the leading Republican 

journal of that part of the State. In 1865, Mr. Farman went to Europe and sxjent 

two years in the study of criminal, international and civil law at Heidelberg and 

Berlin, and in learning the French and German languages. On his return to the 

United States he was appointed by the Governor as District Attorney of Wyoming 

County, an office which he held with much credit for seven years. In 1876 Mr. 

Farman was appointed Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, by President Grant. During 

the five years that Mr. Farman was Consul General he performed the duties of his 

ofiice in the most painstaking and efficient manner. He also took an interest in the 

welfare of the people of Egypt, and through his efforts at various times fifteen slaves 

received their freedom. During the visit of General Grant to Egypt, Mr. Farman 

presented the General to the Khedive and otherwise took a prominent part in his 

reception. The obelisk in Central Park in New York City was obtained through 

the exertions of Mr. Farman, and the " Farman Collections " of Egyptian antiquities 

in the Metropolitan Museum were collected and classified by him. He was appointed 

on July 1, 1881, by President Garfield to the position of Judge of the Internationa] 

Court of Egypt, which office he filled with credit to himself and the United States 

until his resignation in 1884. On leaving Egypt he received from the Khedive the 

order of the Medjidieh. In 1882 Amherst College conferred upon him the degree 

of LL. D. 

NOTE. 

"Came Michael Stuppel and Stephen Bernerd of Loud. Mariners, and proved 
their rights to one thousand seven hundred and fifty acres of Land for transporta- 
ing (here follow many names, among them) 

William Forman 

unto this Province 

to Inhabite . . . June 18, 1675." 
In 1707 William Forman (perhaps the above William) owned 100 acres of 
land in Baltimore Co., being part of a tract called Bear neck, "surveyed 8 ffeb 1682, 
for Robert Proctor."— Z«/ of Early Settlers in Maryland {Land office, Annapohs.) 



62 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 



Genealogy of the Forman Family of Monmouth County, New 

Jersey, descended from Robert Forman 

who died in 1671. 



INTRODUCTION. 



38. By far the most thorough researches that liave been made in the history 
of this family were made by Mr. William Henry Forman of New York City, to 
whom credit is due for the information here presented proving that the Forman 
family of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, is descended from Robert Forman, an English- 
man who settled in Long Island and died in 1671. To Mr. George W. Cocks, of 
Glen Cove, Long Island, is due much of the information as to the Long Island 
descent. 

Something should be said in regard to the theory that the family is descended 
from John Foreman, a Scotch covenanter, said to have come over as a refugee from 
persecution. Mr. William Henry Forman found the facts in regard to John Fore- 
man to be as follows — some two hundred persons, among whom was John Foreman, 
were brought from Scotland to New Jersey, in Septembei-, 1685, in the ship Henry 
& Francis to be bound out as servants by way of punishment for refusing to swear 
allegiance to James II. Their refusal was due to the fact that the King was a 
Roman Catholic, and they thought it a sin to take the oath of allegiance to a Roman 
Catholic. The privilege of binding out these people as servants for a term of years 
was obtained by George Scot, laird of Pitlochie, as compensation for the expense of 
transporting them. Pitlochie had also an interest in East Jersey. On the voyage 
which was long and stormy, ship fever broke out, and some seventy of those on 
board died. Among those that died were Pitlochie and his wife. On the arrival 
of the vessel at Perth Amboy in December, 1685, the unwilling passengers appealed 
to the courts for their freedom on the ground that tlie only person who had power 
to bind them, to-wit: Pitlochie, had died. They were granted their liberty, and 
John Foreman settled at Woodbridge, as the town records show, distant but a few 
miles from Perth Amboy. At Woodbridge, which is in Middlesex Co., John Fore- 
man passed the rest of his life and died. In the town book are recorded the name 
and date of birth of each child of the inhabitants. It shows that John Foreman 
had no sons, his only children being daughters. He died intestate, and letters of 
administration were granted to his wife and daughter. The authorities for the 
foregoing statement are, in addition to the records of Woodbridge, Wodrow's History 
of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, 
and Whitehead's History of Perth Amboy. 

In compiling this part of the work help has been afforded by the following 
ladies and gentlemen: Mrs. Catherine P. Byrnes, of Claiborne Co., Miss.; Miss Mary 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 63 

Formal! Day, of Baltimore Co., Md.; Miss Martha R. Dye, of New York City, Mrs. 
Robert Edmonds, of Fauquier Co., Va.; Mrs. C. S. Faircliild, of New York City; Miss 
Estella Forman, of Austinburg, Ohio; Mrs. Hannah C. Forman, of Chicago; Miss 
Mary Forman and Miss Sarah Forman, of Mason Co., Ky.; Mr. Peter Forman, of 
Manahapan, N. J.; Mr. Richard Howell Forman, of Fayette, Miss.; Mr. W. S. Forman, 
of Springville, Ala.; Mr. Marion H. Henderson, of Elizabeth, N. J.; Mrs. J. C. Hum- 
phreys, of Mason Co., Ky.; Major W. P. McDowell, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Louisa D. 
Merrill, of Austinburg, Ohio; Mrs. John Moses, of Trenton, N. J.; Mr. W. M. Paxton, 
of Platte City, Mo.; Miss F. F. Randolpli, of Freehold, N. J.; Mr. T. F. Screven, of 
Savannah, Ga., and the late Miss Anna M. Woodhull, of Freehold. To these names 
should be added that of Mr. George W. Cocks, of Glen Cove, Long Island, who has 
an extensive and minute acquaintance with the early Long Island records. 



NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION OF THE NAME. 

The true original English pronunciation of the name is stated by Mr. William 
Henry Forman, of New York City, to be as if it were sj)elled FuDuan, and this pro- 
nunciation is still retained in parts of England, in Queens and Westchester counties, 
N. Y., in New Jersey to some extent, and in Mason Co., Ky. Elsewhere in the 
United States the name is generally pronounced as if spelled Foreman. A better 
way would be, perhaps, to pronounce the first syllable as it is generally pronounced 
when it occurs in other words. 



THE ENGLISH GENEALOGY. 

39. It is regretted that authority can not be furnished for tlie English 
origin of the family as traced by Mr. William Henry Forman, from whom the fol- 
lowing account was obtained. 

The earliest ancestor from whom he is able to trace the descent of the family 
is William Forman of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. 

William Forman is mentioned in Holinshed's Chronicle as the father of Sir 
William Forman, Lord Mayor of London, 1538-39; also Member of Parliament. 

To resist the threatened invasion of England by the Emperor of Germany 
and the King of France, Henry VIII. issued commissions to various prominent 
persons to raise troops. One of these commissions was issued to Sir Wm. Forman. 
He made the greatest muster of Londoners that had been made up to that time. 
When they were fully organized and drilled, he led them in long procession to 
Westminster, where they were reviewed by the King, his chief councillors, and the 
leading nobility, in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators. There were three 
divisions of 5000 men each, all bravely apparelled and well-armed, exclusive of 
pioneers and attendants. 

"Musters of the citizens were frequent in the reigns of Henry the Eighth and 
" Queen Elizabeth. A history of the muster of the citizens on the 8th of May, 1539, 
" the 31st of Henry the Eighth, is given at length in the ' Records of the Corpora- 



64 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

" tion' Journal 14, folio 166. They marched from Mile End to Whitehall, and from 
" thence to Leadenhall. Sir William Forman, Knt., Lord Mayor, was in bright 
•' harness, whereof the curass, the maynsers, gaiinteletts and other parts were gilt 
" upon the crest and bordures. and with tliat he had a coat of black velvet with a 
" rich cross embroidered, and a great massy chain of gold about his neck, and on 
" his head a cap of black velvet with a rich jewel, he had a goodly jennett richly 
" trapped, with embroidery of gold set upon crimson velvet. About him attended 
" 4 foot men, all apparelled in white satin liose and all puffed out with white 
" sarcanet.'" (Analytical Index to the Remembrancia, page 230, note.) 

Sir William Forman left several sons, of whom the eldest, William, was for a 
time a merchant in Loudon but subsequently retired to an estate which he pur- 
chased in Liucolnshii'e. 

William Forman, son of the Lord Mayor, had several sons, one of whom was 
named Robert. 

Robert Forman had several sons,, one of whom named William became a 
clergyman and was a vicar in Buckinghamshire. 

The Rev. \\'illiam Forman, who, as will be readily seen, was great-grandson 
of Sir William, the Lord Mayor, had several sons, of whom one was Robert Forman. 
Robert's religious opinions were not in accord with those of the then dominant 
party in the English Church, and in order to escape persecution, Robert Forman 
left England and settled at Flushing (Vlissingen), Holland. From Holland he 
came to Amei-ica. 



OTHER 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY FORMANS IN ENGLAND. 

40. A letter from the Hishoj) of Lincoln to Cardinal Wolsey, is printed in 
"Original Letters Illustrative of English History," with notes by Sir Henry Ellis, 
published by Bentley of London. 1846: this letter states that Rtn^ Thomas Forman, 
D. D., appears to have received heretical books. A foot-note, vol. 2, p. 78, states that 
Thomas Forman, D. D., was instituted to the Rectory of Allhallows, Honey-Lane, 
Feb. 7, 1524. He died in 1528. 

From the article by Mr. S. L. Lee on Simon Forman, the astrologer, in the 
Dictionary of National Biography, we learn that Richard Forman, the grandfather 
of Simon, was Governor of Wilton Abbey. After Henry VIII. granted the Abbey 
to Sir William Herbert, later Earl of Pembroke, Richard Forman held .some position 
in the park. He died in 1556. His son William, born 1524 at Quidhampton, Wilt- 
shire, d. 1564. was page to Lord Willoughby. In 1544 he married Mary, daughter of 
John and Mariauna (Hallam) Foster. They had eight children, the fifth son was 
Simon, born at Quidhampton 1552, d. 1611. Mr. Lee states that Simon Forman 
claimed connection with Sir William Forman, Lord Mayor of London, and with Sir 
George Forman, K. B., 1485, &c. Simon Fcjrraan wrote various works, among which 
was one on "Matters of Arms and Gentility Belonging to his Family," which is not 
known to have been printed. His autobiography wi-itten in 1600 has been 
printed. He there states that Richard Forman, his grandfather, was the 
son of Sir Thomas Forman of Leeds, who was the son of another Sir Thomas 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 65 

Forman of Furnival. The children of William and Marie (or Marianna) Foster 
Forman were: 1, William; 2,Jone (or Joan), m. William Hannom, gentleman, son 
of the Mayor of Sarum, m. 2ndly, William Briucke, both marriages were without 
children ; 3, Henry, m. Ann, dan. of Thomas Harte, issue dau. Ann ; 4, Richard m. 
1st, Cicely Parlet, sole heir of John Parlet, m. 2nd, Joan Warum, issue 3 children : 
John, Dorothy and Richard; 5, Simon (the astrologer); 6, Robert, m. Joan, dan. of 
Stephen Pore, gentleman, of Dorsetshire: I.Joan ; %,John, d. Dec. 12, 1601. 

The Autobiography says: "And it is recorded in ancient bockes that ther 
" ar three things specially noted in the name of the Formans, that is, ther was never 
" any of them proud, covetous, nor a traitor ; and that may welbe seen to this dale 
" in the generation." 

Simon Forman is frequently refeiTed to in literature, in Tlie Epicene, Act. 
IV., Scene 1 ; The Devil is an Ass, Act I., Scene 2, by Ben Jonson, and in The 
Strange Story by Bulwer. 

Andrew Forman, of Scotland, Archbishop of St. Andrews, was the son of the 
laird of Hutton in Berwickshire. He was one of the most prominent ecclesiastical 
personages of the period in which he lived, and took part in political as well as 
church affairs. A good account of his life is given in the Dictionary of National 
Biography, also in the Scottish Nation, published by Anderson in London, 1853. 
Archbisliop Andrew Forman died in 1521, and was buried at Dunfermline. 



COAT OF ARMS. 



41. Arms of the different families named Forman. given in Sir Bernard 
Burke's "General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales." 

Forman (Luthrie, Co. Fife, Lyon King at Arms, 1555). 

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, sa. three camels' heads erased or, each with a bell ar. 
attached to a collar gu. about her neck for Forman; 2nd and 3d, az. a chev. betw. 
three salmon haurient ar. for Fisher. 

Forman or Foreman (London and Co. Leicester: Lord Mayor of London, 
1538). Barry wavy of six ar. and az. on a chev. sa. three martlets or, on a chief 
gules a lion passant betw. two anchors gold. Crest — a demi dragon ramp. vert. 

Forman or Freman. Az. three bars nebulee ar. on a chev. sa. as many mart- 
lets or, a chief gules charged with a lion pass, guard, between two anchors gold. 

Forman (Co. Lincoln) same arms. 

Forman or Fornens (Co. Norfolk). Sa. five fusils in pale ar. 

Forman (Co. Northumberland). Sa. five fusils in fesse ar. 

Forman. Az. three bears' heads erased ar. collared gules each charged with 
four bells or. 

Various members of the Forman family in America, in particular General 
Thomas Marsh Forman of Cecil Co., Md., and General Jonathan Forman of Cazenovia, 
New York, have used the arms ascribed by Sir Bernard Burke to the Forman family 
of Lincolnshire. In addition they have used a lion's (or leopard's) head as a crest, 
and the motto "Deo et Amicitiae." 



66 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Mr. Win. Henry Forman used a coat-of-arms which was used by his father, 
grandfather and great grandfather before him. It corresponds in all respects, even i 
to the crest, to that used by the Lord Mayor, wliich diffc^rs but slightly from tlie 
Lincolnshire coat-of-arms 



The American Genealogy. 



ROBERT FORMAN. 



42. Robert Forman was driven from England by the persecution of Arch- 
bishop Laud and took refuge in Holland. His name and that of his wife are enrolled 
upon the church register at Vlissingen, Holland, of which tlie English name is 
Flushing. Coming to America, he was one of the 18 incorporators of the town of 
Flushing on Long Island, in 1645. Long Island was then governed by the Dutch, 
but the incorporators of Flushing were Englishmen. The charter, which is at 
Albany, but is printed in Mr. Waller's History of the town of Flushing (1899) has 
Robert's name spelled "Firman" but in all documents signed by iiim it is spelled 
"ffonnan.'' Robert Forman removed from Flushing to Hempstead, Long Island, 
(incorporated November 16, 1645). His namie appears among the 43 signers of a 
letter to Governor Stuyvesant agreeing to pay the "tenths" demanded by the 
Governor, if it can be shown that they are legally obliged to do so (C(jlouial Docs., 
New York State Historical Publications, Vol. 14, page 362). Out of the names of 
four persons submitted. Governor Stuyvesant on Dec. 9, 1658, chose to be magistrates 
at Hempstead, Mr. Richard Gildersleeve and Mr. Robert Forman (same records). On 
May 12, 1664, Robert Forman was appointed as one of two magistrates of Oyster Bay, 
then under the rule of the English colony of Connecticut, that part of Long Island 
east of a straight line running from the westernmost part of Oyster Bay to the sea 
having come under New England jurisdiction in 1650. Robert Forman's will is 
dated February 7, 1670 (Records of Town of Oyster Bay, Liber 1, page 239),^ and 
mentions sons, Moses^ Aaron and Samuel, but no daughter. He died in 1671. That 
his wife's name was Johanna is indicated by the signature " Johanna Forman " as 
the only witness to a deed from Robert to his sons Samuel and Moses, (Liber 1, 
page 11) June 9, 1665. 



WILL OF ROBERT FORMAN. 

February 7th, 1670. 

Ye last will and testament of Robert ffonnan of Oyster Bay. I being weak 

in body, yet being in perfect memory and understanding, do desire of my estate as 

followeth, viz: First, I give to my loving wife my house, barn and orchard, and 

home lot, and the meadow at Matinecock, and all ye hollow at ye Plain Edge, and 

'In office of Clerk of Queens Co., Jamaica, Long Island. 



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a hollow on ye Brushy Plains for my wife to dispose of as she see best for her com- 
fortable subsistence, while she liveth, and if my son Aaron will undertake this for 
his mother, my will is that he shall do it, and improve ye aforesaid house and land 
for her, before any other, and at my wife's decease, ye above mentioned house and 
land to be my son Aaron's — to him and his [heirs] forever. 

Secondly. I give to my two sons Samuel and Moses all of ye remainder of 
my accommodation, both of meadows at ye south and mowable land upon ye plains, 
to be equally divided betwixt them, and in particular, I give to my son Samuel all 
my housing and land at ye Cold Spring, after my wife's decease, provided always 
ye agreement formerly made betwixt my two sons Samuel and Moses at my wife's 
decease shall stand. 

Thirdly. I give to my loving wife all my personal estate, both of living stock 
and household goods to her proper use and behoof, for her comfort and to dispose 
of at her decease; and my will is that my two sons shall during their mother's life, 
provide yearly, hay and what else is needful for ye maintaining their mother's stock 
of cattle. This is my will, as witness my hand in presence of 

Jonas Wood, 

Ab— Frost. Eobert fforman. 

Note : The record of the will spells the name with a u, but it has been 
deemed proper to print the signature spelled as Robert Forman spelled his name in 
all his known signatures. 
■ This will was probated at Jamaica, Long Island, at June session, 1671, and 

\ the widow was allowed to be executrix. 

The record of the inventory of the widow Johanna Forman's estate is dated 
June 6, 1672, and was made by the Constable and Overseers of Oyster Bay. It is a 
I curious document and gives the household goods in great detail. The total valua- 
tion is niiiety-one pounds, ten shillings, threepence : money at that date being more 
valuable than at present, the modern value would be much greater. The live stock 
mentioned are two mares valued at ten pounds, one horse five pounds, two oxen 
twelve pounds, two five-year old steers twelve pounds, two cows eight pounds, one 
two-year and one yearling heifer four pounds, two calves one pound. It would not 
be interesting to describe the pigs, farming and kitchen utensils and household goods 
in detail. A Bible valued at 12 shillings is set down, and would be now the most 
valuable article in the inventory if it contained a family record. There are also "one 
doublet breeches & cote" valued together at 30 shillings, "a gun 2 Swordes " one 
j pound ten shillings, and a three-year old bull three pounds. In addition, the lands, 
I housing, orchards and meadows at Matinecock are estimated to be worth three 
(pounds a year in cuiTent pay of the colony. The document was signed by Thomas 
Townsend, Richard Harcott, Matthew Harvey and Nicholas Wright. 

i Robert Forman, d. 1671. 
m. Johanna 



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1, Moses Forman. 
m. Hannah Crooker. 



68 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

2, Aaron Forman. 
m. Dorothv 



3, Samuel Forman. 

m. Mary Ann (or Miriam) Hoyt. 

It is believed that the foiegoing gives the correct order of births, but for con- 
venience Samuel's family will be taken up before Aai-on's. 

43. Moses Forman, son Robert and Jolianna Forman, 

m. Hannah, dau. t>f William and Ann (Gregory) Crooker, who camel' 
Oyster Bay from Stratford, Conn. 



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1, Moses Forman Jr., d. 1727. 
m. Judith . Son, Zebulon F'orman. 

2, Sarah Forman m. Sanuiel Bennett, Jr. of Rhode Island. 

3, Mercy Forman m. John Weckes. 

44. Samuel Forman, son of Robert and Johanna Forman, d. intestate April, 
1682. as shown by an order in Liber 3, page 483, Oyster Bay Records 
m. Miriam (or Mary Ann) Hoyt, dau. of Simon and Susannah Hoyt of 
Stamford, Conn. 



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1, Mercy Forman m. Benjamin Birdsall (will 1719) son of Nathan Bird- 

sail — eleven children. 

2, John Forman. 

3, Susannah Forman m. Daniel Townsend, d. July 2, 1702, son of John 

and Elizabeth (Montgomery) Townsend, — children. 

4, Sarah Forman. 

45. Aaron Forman, son of Robert and Johanna Forman. 
m. Dorothy 



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1, Aaron Forman, Jr. 
m. Susannah Townsend. 

2, Alexander Forman. 
m. Rachel ■ 

3, Samuel Forman. 
m. Mary Wilbur. 

4, Thomas Forman; (will Nov. 26, 1723.) 
m. Mary Allen: dau. m. Isaac Forman; dau. Rebecca m. Gerard Edge; 

also son Benjamin — all named in will. 

46. Aaron Forman, Jr., son of Aaron and Dorothy. Forman. 

m. Susannah, dau. of Henry and Ann (Coles) Townsend. 



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1, Jacob Forman, m. Mary Wright. 

2, Isaac Forman. 

3, Aaron Forman, m. Sarah Lang. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 



AARON FORMAN. 



69 



47. Aaron Forman, sun of Robert, must have been born not later than 1637, 
for he, with others at Hempstead, was summoned to answer the complaint of the 
farmer of excise on Dec. 19, 1658, when he could not have been less than twenty- 
one years old (calendar of Dutch MSS., N. Y. State Hist. Pubs., Vol. 4, page 204). 
He was townsman of Hempstead in 1660. He was residing at Oyster Bay in 1683. 
On April 8, 1687, he conveyed land at Oyster Bay to his son Aaron Jr. The deed 
is witnessed by Dorothy and Alexander Forman, although they are not named there- 
in, showing that these were the names of his wife and of another son, Alexander 
(Records of Oyster Bay, Liber 2, page 194). It was the custom when wife and son 
of a grantor were willing to be bound by a deed, for them to sign the deed simply, 
without being named therein. Aaron Forman removed to Monmouth Co., New Jer- 
sey, before April 11, 1693: the date of a deed in which he is described as of the 
County of Monmouth and Province of East Jersey, planter, and by which he con- 
veys land at Oyster Bay to "my son Alexander Forman, whicli lands were granted 
unto me, Aaron Forman by a gift of my father, Robert Forman." (Records of 
Oyster Bay, Liber 3, page 277). This deed is signed by Dorothy Forman, Aaron 
Forman, Jr., and Samuel Forman, although they are not named therein, showing 
that Aaron had also a son Samuel. Moreover, Alexander Forman conveyed Dec. 
11, 1695, (Liber 2, page 152), lands at Oyster Bay to John Rogers, adding, "these 
lands did formerly belong to my brother, Samuel Forman." Samuel Forman, des- 
cribed as "of Springtown in the County of Monmouth and Province of East New 
Jersey, in America, planter," had conveyed these lands to Alexander Forman on 
April 11, 1693, (Liber B, page 278). Aaron had also a son Thomas, as is shown by 
a deed dated June 3, 1690 (Liber 3, page 40) wherein Thomas Forman of Jerusalem 
in East New Jersey in America conveys to Thomas Youngs of Oyster Bay, land 
which "was formerly my brother Aaron Forman's land." Among the deeds of Free- 
hold, New Jersey, is one from Samuel Forman to Thomas Forman, May 1699; Samuel 
of town of Freehold and Mary his wife and Thomas Forman my loving brother of 
same town, both yeomen. Thomas married Mary Allen, whose marriage certificate 
or license (May 24, 1695) is in the possession of the New Jersey Historical Society. 



SAMUEL FORMAN. 



48. Samuel Forman, son of Aaron and Dorothy and grandson of Robert, 
was born in 1662 or 1663, and, as has been stated, removed to Monmouth Co., New 
Jersey, as did his brothers Thomas and Alexander. The names of the three appear 
among the signatures to a Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of East Jersey to the 
King against the Acts of the Proprietors, and asking for a competent Governor, 
which was sent to the Proprietors, Nov. 16, 1700. (Archives of N. J., vol. II., p. 322.) 
On Nov. 29, 1695, Samuel was commissioned High Sheriff of Monmouth Co., by 
Gov. Andrew Hamilton. (Commissions, Acts of Assembly tfec, Book C, j). 235, at 
State House, Trenton). His name is misspelled "fforeman " in the Commission, and 



70 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

is also misspelled in vol. II., p. 303 of the Archives, where he is mentioned among 
the people who seized and kept under guard tlu^ Governor, Justices, Attorney Gen- 
eral, and other oflicials from a Tuesday to the following Saturday, in March, 1701, 
the occasion being that they were resisting the trial of one of the people who was 
accused of piracy. No will of Samuel Forman has been found, but his place in the 
family is well determined otherwise. The tombstone of his youngest son records 
that Ezekiel Forman was the son of Samuel and Mary : and in a deed dated Jan- 
uary 16, 1725, Samuel Forman, late High Sheriff of Monmouth Co., conveys certain 
lands in that county to his son, Captain John Forman, and there is a deed to his 
son Aaron in 1719, besides other proof. 

Samuel Forman mari'icd Mary Wilbur of Providence, Rhode Island, who was 
the daughter of Samuel Wilbur, Jr., and Hannah Porter, who was the daughter of 
John Porter, a prominent man in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Samuel 
Wilbur, Jr., was the son of Samuel Wilbur, Senior, who came from England to 
Massachusetts with his three sons and his wife, Ann Ri-adford, the daughter of 
Thomas Bradford, who was the uncle of Governor William Bradford of the May- 
flower. 

The inscription on Samuel Forman's tombstone is : 

Here lieth the Body of 
Samuel Forman who died 
ye 13th flay of October 1740 
in y" 78'h year of his Age 

His wife's tombstone is broken, and reads : 

Body of 

mary Forman wife of Samuel 
Forman who died y^ 13'^ day 
of march 1728 in y« 62^ 
year of her Age 

These tombs with tliose of Hannah Madock and Rebecca Van Cleaf, their 
daughters, and of their son Capt. John Forman, and of another son Aaron and his 
wife Ursula, all are situated on a hill about a mile and a half N. E. of Freehold, 
Monmouth Co., New Jersey. This eminence has been called of late years "Wyckoff 
Hill," because on the farm of Mr. Charles Wyckoff (whose wife is a great-grand- 
daughter of Sherifi" David Forman, hereafter to be mentioned). This hill (which 
commands a view of beautiful farms) and all the surrounding country belonged for 
two hundred years to High Sheriff Samuel Forman and his descendants. 

The eldest son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman, also named Samuel, removed 
to Ehode Island. He is not known to have left any children. There were five 
other sons : Jonathan, Aaron, John, Joseph and Ezekiel, accounts of whom will be 
given under separate headings with their descendants. 



THE FO.RMAN^ GENE A L OG Y. 71 

COMMISSION OF SAMUEL FORM AN AS HIGH SHERIFF OF MONMOUTH 

CO., NEW JERSEY, NOV. 29, 1695.^ 

The Governour and Proprietors of the Province of East New Jersey— to all 
persons to wliom these presents shall come— Greeting.— Know yee that wee have 
Coramissionated and appoynted and by these presents Doe Commissionate and appoint 
Samnell fforeman of ffrehold of the Countie of Munmouth— Gent. High Slierriffe of 
the said Countie of Munmouth for and during the time and terme of one whole 
yeare now next ensueing. And wee doe hereby in the King's name, and by his 
Authoritie Comand all Justices of the peace, Constables and other officers— And all 
the freeholders and Inhabitants of the said Province to be Aiding and Assistant to the 
said Samuell fforeman, in all things as Slierriffe of the said Countie, which to his office 
doth belong and appertaine. Given under the Seale of the Province, this twenty- 
ninth day of November, in the seaventh year of the Raign of our Soveraigu Lord 
King William over England, <fec.. Anno Dom. 1695. 

Andrew Hamilton. [L. S.] 
By order of the Governour, 

John Barclay, Deputy Secretary. 



EXTRACTS FROM NEW JERSEY ARCHIVES. 

49. "" Remonstrance of the inhabitants of East Jersey to the King against 
the acts of the proprietors, and asking for a competent Governor. (Sent to the pro- 
prietors, Nov. 16, 1700.) ^Signed by, 

Samuel Forman, 
Thomas fforman, 
Alexander Forman." 

*" Proceedings of Court of Sessions of Monmouth County, . . . the people 
viz.: Capt. Safetie Groom, Sam'll foreman (&c.) to ye number of about one hundred 
did traytorously seize ye Governor and ye Justices, the Kings Attorney Generall and 
ye under sheriff and ye Gierke of ye Court and keept them close prisoners under 
guard from tewsday ye 2.5th March (1701), till ye Saturday following and then 
Releast them." (These people were resisting the trial of one of themselves who was 
accused of piracy.) 

^"Petition of inhab. of N. Jersey asking to be taken under the gov't of the 

King, . . . July 17, 1701. Signers, 

Alex Forman." 

®" Paper of refusal to pay Francis Pagit acting as constable. 

Signers. 



(1715) Alex Forman." 



'Book C. of CommisBionB, Acts of Assembly, &c., page 235, at State House, Trenton, N. J. 
^Archivesof New Jersey, Vol. ii., p. 322. Mi, 327. Mi, 363. Hi, 395. «ii, 215. 



J 

72 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

50. Samuel Forman, b. 1662 or 1663, d. Oct. 13, 1740, son of Aaron and 

Dorothy Fonnaii. 

m. Mary Wilbur, dau. of Sanniel Wilbur, Jr., and Hannah Porter, of 
_j ' Providence, R. I., b. 1668 or 1667, d. March 13, 1728-9. 

1, Samuel Forman, b. 1686. Will probated at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 

Nov. 4. 1746. 
m. first Martha Rrownell ; second Mary Reed (?) 

2, Jonathan Forman, b. 1688, d. Dec. 28, 1762. 
m. Margaret WyckofF. b. 1693, d. Dec. 21, 1765. 

3, Hannah Forman. b. Dec. 24, 1689, d. January 11, 1755, aged 65 years, 
m. William Madock. 

4, Rebecca Forman, b. 1696, d. Sept. 19, 1748, aged 52. 
m. Van Cleaf (or Van Kleif). 

5, Mary Forman, b. 1697. 
m. Romiue. 

6, Aaron Forman, b. May 22, 1699, d. January 13, 1741-2. 

m. Ursula Craig, dau. of Archibald Craig, b. 1705, d. April 4, 1758, 
aged 63. 

7, (Captain) John Forman, b. Sept. 23, 1701, d. Nov. 25, 1748, aged 47. 
m. Jane WyckofF. 

8, Joseph Forman, b. Dec, 1703, d. July 14, 1775. 
m. Elizabeth Lee, d. Oct. 15, 1774, aged 64. 

9, Ezekiel Forman. b. Nov. 1, 1706, d. Oct. 3, 1746. 
m. Elizabeth Seabrooke. 

Samuel, the eldest son of Samuel and Mary (Wilbur) Fornmn, removed frdiii 
Monmouth Co., N. J., to Rhode Island. His will mentions no childien. 

We will now take up in succession the descendants of the other five brothers : 
Jonathan, Aaron, Cajit. John, Joseph and Ezekiel. Information is comparatively 
abundant in regaixl to the branches descended from Jonathan, Josepli and Ezekiel; 
that in regard to the branches descended from Aaron and Capt. John being, unfor- 
tunately, very incomplete. 



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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 73 



Descendants of Samuel Forman, High Sheriff, Monmouth Co. New 

Jersey, 1695, d- i740, aged 77. 



DESCENDANTS OF JUDGE JONATHAN FORMAN, SECOND SON. 

51. Jonathan Forman (1688-1762) was a prosperous farmer and Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas, Monmouth Co., 1745. He and his wife, Margaret WyckofF. 
are buried at the "Old Scots" burying ground four miles from Freehold in a N. E. 
direction. It was at the '"Old Scots" church that the first Presbytery formed in 
America, the Philadelphia Presbytery, convened on Dec. 29, 1706, and ordained the 
Rev. John Boyd, tlie first known pastor of this church. There was, it is said, a prior 
meeting of the Presbytery, but this meeting is the fii'st of which record exists. 



ABSTRACT OF WILL. 

" In the Name of God, Amen. The Twentieth day of June, in the Year of our 
Lord, One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty-nine, I, Jonathan Forman of Freehold, 
in the County of Monmouth, and Province of New Jersey, Esqr. Being antient and 
weak in body but of Perfect mind and memory .• . . Firstly, I Give and be- 
queath unto Margaret my Dearly beloved wife one moiety or half part of my Farm 
or Plantation whereon I now dwell, and also one-half of all my buildings, and of 
my Negro Men and one Negro woman at her Choice, and her Choice of Two of my beds 
with all the Furniture to them belonging that is now in the House, and the one-half 
of all my other household Goods belonging to my House, all which I give unto her. 
" All this she is to have so long as she remains a widow. If she re- 
marries, to have choice of one negro woman, of one bed and its "furniture," and of 
a riding horse and her side saddle, all for her life, and to be returned after her 
death, and divided among all his children, and granddaughter Eleanor Van Doru, 
or such of them as she shall think most deserving, any children of the negro woman 
born between his and his wife's death to be disposed of in like manner. The negro 
children Tone and Nan are given to her to give to any of his children that she 
wishes. To son Samuel Forman, besides what he has already had, ten pounds in 
money, and after testator's wife's death, negro boy called Ninos. To son John i'or- 
man, besides what he has had the sum of ten pounds. To son Peter, a tract of land. 
To the three youngest children of deceased son Jonathan Forman, Jr., sum of sixty 
pounds, or twenty to each as they reach age of 21, but if eldest son when he comes 
of age, shall give his youngest brother and two sisters such a share of tlieir father's 
estate as shall please testator's executors, then the sixty pounds to be divided among 
the four, and the eldest son shall share in what was designed for Jonathan Forman, 



74 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Jr., in testator's brother Samuel's estate. To daughter Mary, wife of Robert Rhe, 
one hundred pounds to be paid one year alter death of testator and his wife. To ♦ 
granddaughter Eleanor Van Dorn oue good feather bed and "furniture," two cows 
and their calves, ten sheep, tlie negro boy called Mack, one cupboard or desk, one 
riding horse or mare, and ten pounds, to purchase necessaries for housekeeping, all 
to be to her at the time of her marriage, also one hundred pounds two years aftei 
death of testator and wife, also to have use of her room in the house, and of a seat 
in pew in the new meeting house until she is married. To son David all lands in 
New Jersey except that above bequeathed, and a cedar swamp hereafter mentioned j' 
and one-half personal estate in New Jersey, not lierein bequeathed, also all debts 
due to testator at his decease, and negro men Titus and Tom to enable; him to pay 
debts and legacies. To son Samuel Forman, one-third of lands in New England, 
bequeathed by brother Samuel deceased, the remaining two-thirds to be divided 
among the other children, the three youngest children of deceased son Jonathan to 
have their father's share unless the eldest son comply with above condition, in which 
case he is to share also. As to the 62 acres of land at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 
which deceased brother Samuel left to be divided between brothers Joseph and 
Ezekiel, they to pay legacies to the three sisters, Hannah Madock, Mai-y Romine, 
and Rebecca, of fifty pounds New York money, Ezekiel having died before Samuel 
and bequest to him becoming void, and testator as heir at law to that part, having 
paid one-half of said legacies to the sisters, and the land having been sold by Joseph 
and Jonathan and the legacies having been paid in full; testator believing it was 
Samuel's wish that Ezekiel's children should enjoy what was bequeathed to him, 
although it was not bequeatlied to his children since Ezekiel had no child at the 
time Samuel made his will, therefore the remainder of the money after the payment 
of said legacies is bequeathed as follows: To Samuel (son of Ezekiel), eighty pounds 
on Oct. 28, 1759; to Thomas (son of Ezekiel), seventy pounds on Dec. 18, 1761; to 
Aaron (son of Ezekiel), seventy pounds on Feb. 4, 1767; to Ezekiel (son of Ezekiel) 
seventy pounds on April 7, 1768, all to be paid by testator's son David, in money of 
New Jersey, at eight shillings the ounce, in which currency all the legacies are to 
be paid. If any of Ezekiel's sons shall die before the age of 21, or befoi-e they have 
lawful heirs, then such son's share to be divided among the survivors. To all 
testator's sons is left Cedar Swamp, above Cedar Bridge, on a branch of Matetecunck 
River. All parts of personal estate not bequeathed to go to son David, to help pay 
debts and legacies. If granddaughter Eleanor Van Dorn dies unmarried, share to 
be retiu-ned to estate and divided among the children. Executors: Wife, Margaret 
sons, Samuel and Peter. 

Witnessed by four persons. Signed, Jon° Forman. 

Codicil June 6, 1761. Ten pounds additional to son Peter, also negro boy Toney 
at testator's wife's discretion or decease. To daughter Mary, wife of Robert Rhe, a 
negro girl named Nanny, and a negro woman named Franck, to daughter Mary and 
son David. To wife Margaret for her life, all household goods except watch and 
best gun, same to be divided after her decease, between daughter Mary Rhe and 
granddaughter Eleanor Van Dorn, negroes not included in household goods. To 



777^ FORM AN GENEALOGY. 75 

son David, farm utensils, and watch, and gun. Horses, cattle and sheep not before 
bequeathed, to be equally divided between sons now living. To son Samuel, 16^ 
acres land in Fi-eetown, in New England. 

Three witnesses. Signed, Jon" Forman. 

Probated January 20, 1763. 

Recorded in Liber H, of Wills, pages 215, <fec. 

The late Judge "William P. Forman of Manalapan, N. J., stated in his little book 
that in the account book of Judge Jonathan Forman (his great-great-grandfather) is 
the following record under date of April 29, 1729 : "Then weighed the old iron and 
" nails of the court house and jail, the old court house and jail having been burned 
" down, per John Little, Esq., and Jonathan Forman. Weight of iron 320 pounds. 
" and nails 84 pounds." In the same book are included accounts of Peter Forman 
(great-grandfather of Judge William P. Forman) after his father's decease. "It 
" seems they were owners of a large tract of timber land in what is called the 
" Fonnan neighborhood, and that they carried on an extensive manufactory of flour 
" barrels, which were in great demand at that time, as the book shows that many 
" thousands were furnished to the floui-ing mills for considerable distances." A list 
of the owners of thirty-two mills then follows. Peter Forman was, it would appear 
from a small book owned by his descendant, treasurer of the old Tennent church 
which still stands on the Monmouth battlefield. "His report. May 29, 1755, shows 
" that payment for the pews if not paid was to be on interest after May 1, 1753. 
" This would seem to imply that the church was finished about the year 1753. The 
" Formans were largely represented, and took nearly one-tenth of the pews : Samuel 
" Forman and David Rhea took No. 10 ; Peter Forman, my great-gi*andfather. No. 
"11; Jonathan Forman, Esq., No. 24; Joseph Forman, No. 27; Lewis Forman, No. 
" 43 ; John Forman, No. 18. My grandfather, William Forman, informed me some 
" sixty years ago, that his father, Peter, led the singing in the church for some years 
" after it was first used for public worship." 

Judge Jonathan Forman's eldest son, Samuel, and youngest son, David, mar- 
ried daughters of Tennis Denise. a prominent man of a well known Long Island 
family. The six daughters of Tennis Denise married in Monmouth Co., and three 
of them married Formans. An account will later be given of Samuel, the eldest 
son of Judge Jonathan. He lived at Middletown Point, (now Matawan), and the 
house still stood in 1901. 

Peter, the second son, was a Justice of the Peace at the time of the Revolu- 
tion, as shown by his commission, signed by Gov. Livingston, which was in the pos- 
session of his great grandson. Judge William P. Forman. The latter printed in 
1885, a little book on the family, which contains much interesting information, but 
gives a mistaken account of the origin of the family. Peter Forman was one of the 
pew holders in the old Tennent church of which others of the family were members. 

David Forman, the youngest son of Judge Jonathan, was commissioned Sheriff 
Oct. 10, 1780, and with Peter Wyckoff acted as guide at the battle of Monmouth in 
1778. He lived in the homestead which still exists, and stands about a mile and a 
half N. E. of Freehold. It is now the residence of Mr. Charle s Forman, great- 



76 THE FOR MAN GENEALOGY. 

grandson of Sheriff David Forman. Sheriff David Forman and General David For- 
man were first cousins and intimate friends. A lady who is descended from the 
former writes: "Both being prominent men, to distinguisli tliem the General was 
called 'Devil David,' because of his dauntless si)irit and indomitable will, and 
Sheriff Da\id was called ' Hlack David,' being of dark complexion and hair — the 
General was fair. This is contrary to all the statements I have seen in history 
(with one exception), but I have always understood that tliis is correct." From 
Sheriff David are descended most of the Formans who now live in Monmouth Co. 
He and his wife and the succeeding generations that lived in the country are buried 
at "Old Tennent" church. 

52. Jonatlian Forman, son of Sanuiel and Mary (Wilbur) Forman, b. 1(388, 
d. Dec. 28, 1762, aged 74. 

m. Margaret Wyckoff, b. 1693, d. Dec. 21, 1765, aged 72. 
I 

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1, Eleanor Forman, b. 1713, d. May 22, 1733, aged 20. 
m. Abraham Van Dorn. 

2, Samuel Forman, b. Nov. 13, 1714, d. January 18, 1792. 

m. May 26, 1752, Helena Denise, b. March 17, 1728, d. Jany 22, 1789. 

3, John Forman, b. Sept. 14, 1716, d. 1799. 
m. Rebecca Taylor. 

4, Peter Forman, b. May, 1719, d. Sept. 8, 1785, aged 66. 
m. Eleanor Williamson, b. 1720, d. Nov. 6, 1771, aged 51. 

5, Jonathan Forman, b. 1722, d. May 20, 1758, aged 36. 

m. Sarah Tlirockmorton (?), dau. of John Throckmorton. — children. 
See paragraph 151. 

6, Mary Forman. 
m. Robert Rliea. 

7, AVilliam Forman, b. Feb. 20, 1729, d. 1735. 

8, David Forman, b. Oct. 1, 1733, d. March 30, 1812. 

m. fii'st, June 16, 1757, Anne Denise (half sister to Helena Denise, 
above mentioned) b. June 16, 1736, d. Sept. 9, 1798 ; m. second, Dec. 
4, 1799, Elinor Van Brunt (widow). 

53. Samuel Forman, son of Jonathan and Margaret (Wyckoff) Forman. b. 
Nov. 13, 1714, d. Jany 18, 1792. 

m. 1752, Helena Denise, dau. of Tennis Denise, b. Mcli. 17, 1728, d. 
_J Jan V 22. 1789. 

I 

1, Catherine Forman, b. April 29, 1753, d. at Aurora, N. Y., July 22, 1799. 

m. January 22, 1775, Benjamin Ledyard, of Groton, Conn., who be- 
came Major in Revolutionary army — son of Youngs Ledyard — b. 
1753, d. 1803.— 10 children. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 77 

2, Jonathan Forman, b. Oct. 16, 1755, d. at Pompey Hill, Onondaga Co., 

N. Y., May 25, 1809. (See account of his life to be given later, 
m. Apl. 2, 1781, Mary Ledyard, dau. of Youngs Ledyard, of Groton, 
Conn., b. Sept. 3, 1758, d. at Cazenovia, N. Y., May 31, 1806. 

3, Margaret Forman, b. July 28, 1758, d. July 14, 1787. 

m. John Burrowes, Jr., who became a Major in the Revolutionary army, 
later drowned in St. Mary's River, Florida. 

4, Denise Forman, b. July 22, 1761. 

m. Euphemia Kearny, dau. of Major Thomas Kearny, officer in King 
George's army. They had no children and died within a day of 
each other. 

5, Eleanor Forman, b. Nov. 2, 1763, d. Sept. 1, 1850. 
m. Philip Freneau (the poet). 

6, Mary Forman, d. in infancy. 

7, Samuel S. Forman, b. July 6, 1767 (or 1765), d. at Syracuse, N. Y., 1862. 
m. Sarah McCarty of New London, Conn. 

8, Helena Forman, d. in infancy. 



GENERAL JONATHAN FORMAN. 

54. General Jonathan Forman (1755-1809) was the eldest son of Samuel 
and Helena Denise Forman of Middletown Point, and grandson of Judge Jonathan 
and Margaret (Wyckoff) Forman. After serving as an officer in Heard's Militia 
Brigade, he became on Dec. 1, 1776, Captain in the New Jersey Continental Line, 
and served with distinction in the line throughout the war. He took part in Sul- 
livan's expedition against the Six Nations to punish them for the massacre of Wyom- 
ing ; was in Virginia under Lafayette ; at Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown ; was 
promoted in November, 1781, from Captain to Major Third Regiment, New Jersey 
Line; and was placed in command of the battalion of light infantry in August, 
1782; commanded successively posts at Dobbs Ferry, at Stony Point, and on the 
Croton River later in 1782 ; and was promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, Second Regiment, 
in February, 1783, and served until the close of the war. In June, 1783, he was 
elected Vice President of the New Jersey Branch of the Society of the Cincinnati at 
its organization. In 1794 he headed a regiment against the Whiskey Insurgents. He 
removed in 1796 from New Jersey to Cazenovia, New York, where he became Brig- 
adier General in the militia and was a member of the legislature. 

In 1796 central New York was a new country. It is said that "there was 
then no carriage road and in many places they were obliged to use axes to make 
their way in that direction. It is said that the carriage of Col. Forman was the 
first conveyance of the kind that passed beyond the site of Whitestown. He drove 
to Chittenango, and the family went thence to Cazenovia on horseback." 

Jonathan Forman was a man of very attractive personality, of a warm and 
tender heart, and much beloved, as well as a good soldier. The family tradition is 



78 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

that at the time of the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794, Washington, who had not 
seen him for many years, said on meeting lum just before the expedition started: 
"Colonel Forman, you are always first on the field of duty." 

General Jonathan Forman, son of Samuel and Helena (Denise) Forman, b. 
1755, d. 1809. 

m. 1781, Mary Ledyard, dau. of Youngs Ledyard, of Groton, Conn. 



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1, Helena Forman, b. Nov. 8, 1782, d. Sept. 3, 1783. 

2, Mary Ledyard Forman, b Feb. 18, 1785. 
m. Henry Seymour. 

Henry Seymour. 

m. January 1, 1807, Mary Ledyard Forman, dai;. of Gen. Jonathan 
Forman. 



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1, Mary Forman Seymour. 

m. Rntger Bleecker MiHer, of Utica — children now living: 
Henry, Blandina D., Helen L. Miller, Mrs. A. H. Green. 

2, Horatio Seymour (Governor of New Yorlv). 
ra. Mary Bleecker, of Albany — no children. 

3, Sophia Appolina Seymour. 

m. Edward F. Shonnard, of Yonkers — only child, Frederic. 

4, Jolm F. Seymour. 

m. Frances Antill Tappan, of New Haven and New York — chiklren: 
Horatio, m. Abigail Adams Johnson, and lives at Marquette, L. S. 
Michigan: and Mary Ledyard Seymour, who m. Dr. W. F. P'ord, 
of Utica, N. Y. 

5, Helen Clarissa Seymour. 

m. Ledyard Lincklaen of Cazenovia, N. Y. — only child married Hon. 
Charles S. Fairchild, of New York, who was Secretary of the 
Treasury in the fii-st administration of President Cleveland. 

6, Julia Catherine Seymour. 

m. Hon. Roscoe Conkling, U. S. Senator from New York, — only child 
is Mrs. W. G. Oakmau, New York. 



THE LEDYARD FAMILY. 

Benjamin Ledyard who married Catherine Forman, and Mary Ledyard who 
married Gen. Jonathan Forman, were children of Youngs Ledyard and grand- 
children of John Ledyard, an Englishman of good family and education who emi- 
grated to America. A sketch of the family with a genealogy, written by Mr. John 
Austin Stevens, may be found in the Magazine of American History, volume 7. 

Benjamin Ledyard was Major in McDougall's First New York Regiment in 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 79 

the Revolution. His iirst cousin, John Ledyard, was a well-known traveler, accom- 
panied the celebrated Captain Cook on his last voyage, and wrote an account of the 
expedition. Col. William Ledyard who was killed at the taking of Fort Griswold in 
1781 was Major Benjamin Ledyard's uncle. 



GOVERNOR HORATIO SEYMOUR. 

Horatio Seymour was the son of Henry Seymour and Mary Ledyard Forman, 
his wife. She was the daughter of Gen. Jonathan Forman. Governor Seymour was 
one of the most prominent men of his time and a volume would he required to give 
an account of his life. He was born at Pompey Hill, Onondaga Co., N. Y., May 31, 
1810, was admitted to the bar in 1832 but never practiced. In 1841 lie entered the 
legislature, becoming Speaker in 1845. He was Governor of New York 1853-1855 
and again 1863-1865. In 1868 he was nominated for the Presidency by the Demo- 
cratic party, but was defeated by Gen. Grant, the Republican candidate. He died 
at Utica Feb. 12, 1886. 

55. Philip Freneau, b. January 2, Old Style, 1752, d. Dec. 18, 1832, aged 
80 years, 11 months and 16 days. 

m. 1789, Eleanor, dau. of Samuel and Helena (Denise) Forman. 



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1, Helen Denise Freneau. 

m. Dec. 15, 1816, John Hammill, a merchant of New York. Children: 
four daughters, none of whom left descendants. 

2, Agnes Watson Freneau. 

m. Nov. 25, 1816, Edward Leadbeater, a merchant of New York, of a 
prominent family in Co. Cavan, Ireland, a graduate of Trinity 
College, Dublin, and formerly a surgeon in the British Army. He 
died March 28, 1832, in his 48th or 49th year. Children: two 
sons and four daughters, all of whom married, and there are 
many descendants. 

3, Catherine Ledyard Freneau, unmarried. 

4, Margaret Freneau, unmarried. 

Note: The recent biography of Philip Freneau, the "Poet of the Revolu- 
tion," by Miss Mary S. Austin, gives many hitherto unknown facts in regard to his 
life, as well as much information as to his ancestry and descendants. Freneau's 
talents as a poet (which were considerable) were very valuable to the American 
cause. He saw some military service also, having been at the battle of Gerraantown, 
according to his brother-in-law. Major Samuel S. Forman. His name appears on 
page 465 of Gen. Stryker's roster of troops, and the "Monmouth Inquirer," quoted 
at page 208 of the biography, speaks of him as "a good soldier." 



80 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 



MAJOR SAMUEL S. FORMAN. 



5(>. Samuel S. Forman, the youngest son of Samuel and Helena (Denise) 
Forman, was born at Middletown Point, (now Matawan) July C, 1707 (or 1765). He 
accomi)anied his cousin Ezckiel Foi-man when the latter removed to the Natchez 
country in 1789, and in liis later years wrote an account of the expedition, which was 
published in the Historical Magazine for December, 1869, with notes by Mr. Charles C 
Dawson. In 1888 it was printed from a slightly different version, and abridged as 
a "Narrative of a Journey down the Ohio and Mississippi," in a small volume edited 
by Dr. Lyman C. Draper, who had apparently not seen the earlier appearance of the 
work. It is a veiy interesting account of travel in the then west, and is otherwise 
valuable. In the "Narrative," Major Forman refers to his cousin as "uncle" on 
account of the difference in their ages. In a private letter Major Forman ptated 
that there were no less than twelve Samuel Formans living in Monmouth Co., at the 
same time — the latter part of the eighteenth century, and to avoid confusion each 
assumed the name of his father as a middle name. 

At tlie commencement of tlie War of the Revolution, writes Major Forman, 
his fatliei' Samuel Forman was a merchant and owned a large landed estate, and 
took an active part in the defence of the country. As Middletown Point was as it 
were on the frontier of the enemy, he was very much harassed by them — the Tories 
making frequent depredatory incursions, and ransacked and plundered his house, 
burned his valuable mills and other buildings. He also suffered much by continental 
money. The eldest son of Sauniel Forman was General Jonathan Forman, whose careci- 
already been described. Denise, the second son, was at the battle of Germantown. 
in the New Jersey militia, was later taken prisoner with Philip Freneau, on a 
privateer owned by the latter and remained a long time a prisoner on board a prison 
ship in New York harbor. He and Freneau were exchanged and were perfe(-t 
skeletons when they returned home. Samuel Forman's youngest son was Samuel S., 
who could just remember the Tories running their bayonets through the feather 
beds in search of his father. Samuel S. Forman witnessed the evacuation of New 
York, by the British, Nov. 25, 1783, having gone to New York to enter tin- 
employ of the firm composed of his brother-in-law. Major Benjamin Ledyard, 
and Col. Benjamin Walker, who were engaged in the wholesale hardwarti 
and commission business, selling West India produce. Before he was 21, h(^ 
he was sent to Charleston, S. C, as supercargo of a vessel loaded with flour. Hi^ 
acquitted himself so well of this task that his cousin Gen. David Forman engaged 
him to accompany Ezekiel Forman, the General's brother, on his journey to Natchez 
in 1789-90. After his return from Natchez, Major Forman witnessed in Philadelphia 
the second inauguration of President Washington. "In 1793," writes Mr. Dawson, 
" he engaged with Messrs. Cazenove and Lincklaen, agents of the Holland Land 
Co., to assist in disposing of the company's lands in New York, lying ntiar the centres 
of the state. Large quantities of staple goods, farming implements, <fec. were for- 
warded to the proposed new settlement, which was named by the Major, Cazenovia, 
in honor of one of his employers." He also named Delphi in the same county. 







Mrs. 1m.i:\M)I( Fokman 1 1 ankinsox. 
UuiikIiut ol" Williiim ainl Klciui.>r ( W illiKm»iiii) I-'iirmuii. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 81 

" Having organized a military company at Cazenovia, he was appointed by Gov. Jay 
Major of the regiment to whicli it was attached. He carried on a mercantile busi- 
ness at Cazenovia for many years, and held many places of private and public trust. 
He removed to Onondaga Co., about 1808, in which year he married Miss Sarah 
McCarty, of Salina. His only children were a son who died in infancy, and a 
daughter Mary Euphemia, who married Dr. Abraham Van Gaasbeck, of Syi-acuse, 
N. Y. Major Forman had an extensive acquaintance with public men, and was 
related by birth and marriage to many persons of distinction. He was a man of 
good conversational abilities, sound judgment, generous disposition, and fine social 
feelings. His mental faculties were retained in a remarkable degree to extreme old 
age." He died at his daughter's residence at Syracuse, August 18, 1862. 

Mary Euphemia Forman, only child of Major Samuel S. Forman, married; 
first, Rensselaer van Rensselaer; second. Dr. A. van Gaasbeck. There were no 
children of either marriage. 

57. Peter Forman, second son of Judge Jonathan and Margaret (Wyckoff) 
Forman, b. 1718, d. 1785. 

m. 1742, Eleanor Williamson. 

Children, (according to Judge Wm. P. Forman's book): 

1, William Forman, b. 1751, d. 1823. 

m. Fransinchy Hendrickson, b. 1759, d. 1815, dau. of Garrett and Cath- 
erine (Denise) Hendrickson, of Middletown. 

2, Jonathan Forman, m. s. p. 

3, Samuel P. Forman, (several times High Sheriff of Monmouth Co.) 

m. . Children: Peter Forman, (High Sheriff of Hunterdon Co.) 

Michael Forman, and some daughters. 

4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, — daughters, all of whom married, and whose names 

are given in Judge Wm. P. Forman's book. 

58. William Forman, son of Peter and Eleanor (Williamson) Forman, b. 
1751, d. 1823. 

m. Fransinchy Hendrickson. 

Children : 

1, Garrett Forman, b. 1778, d. 1825. 
m. Anna Karr. 

2, Peter Forman, b. 1781, d. 1838. 

m. 1st, Rebecca Ely, dau. of Isaac Ely. 

m. 2nd, Phoebe, dau. of Allison Ely, no children. 

3, Catherine Forman, d. 1873, unmarried, aged 83. 

4, Eleanor Forman. 

m. Lewis Ford Hankinson, — children. 

5, Jonathan Forman, removed to the West, d. aged 74, unmarried. 

6, Samuel William Forman, b. 1794, d. 1875. 
m. 1st, Mary Clayton. 

m. 2nd, Mrs. Mary W. Clark. 



82 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

59. Garrett Foi-man, sou of AVilliam and Fransinchy (Hendrickson) Forman, 
b. January 4, 1778, d. July 14, 1825. 

m. Anna Karr, dau. of Ebenezer Karr. 

Children : 

1, Fransinchy Forman, b. Nov. 30, 1800. 
m. 1st, Josiah Van Schoick. 

m 2nd, John M. Rue. 

2, Ebenezer Forman, b. Dec. 15, 1802. 
m. 1st, Mary Jolinson. 

m. 2nd, Nancy Gaston. 

3, Esther Forman, b. June 14, 1805. 
m. Peter Cadmus. 

4, Lydia Ann Forman, b. July 20, 1807. 
m. Jacob Johnson. 

5, William Forman, b. January 1. 1810, d. Dec. 23, 1889. 

ra. Martha Phillips— son Ilalpli Forman, b. Oct. 11, 1839, married, s. p. 

6, Jonathan Forman, b. January 15, 1812. 
m. Ist, Mary Lampson. 

m. 2nd, Sally Peck. 

7, Phebe Forman, b. Aug. 15, 1814., m. Silas Peck. 

8, Elizabeth Foiman. b. Oct. 14, 1818. d. Dec. 3, 1889. 

m. Richard Buckelew. Children: 1, William; 2, Spafford. 

9, Catherine Forman, b. Aug. 14, 1821. 
m. Duren Way. 

(>0. Fransinchy Forman, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Nov. 
30, 1800, at Blacksmiils, Monmouth Co., N. J., d. March 16, 1866, at Prospect 

Plains, N. J. 

m. 1st. January 31, 1822, Josiah Van Schoick. 

m. 2nd, April, 1833, John M. Rue. 

Children by 1st marriage : 

1, Hannah Van Schoick, b. Freehold, May 8, 1824, d. Smithburg, N. J., 

May 17, 1832. 

2, Ann Van Schoick, b. Freehold, April 6, 1826, d. Cranbury Station, 

Nov. 7, 1895. 
m. May 17, 1843, Augustus Anderson. 

3, Margaret Hance Van Schoick, b. Shrewsbury, N. J., May 23, 1828. 
m. 1st, May 12, 1852, La Rue Craig Dye. 

m. 2nd, Feb. 8, 1892, William McKnight Smith. 

4, David Van Schoick, b. Freehold, April 16, 1830, d. Smithburg, N. J., 

April 29, 1832. 

5, Maiy Eliza Van Schoick, b. Feb. 12, 1832, d. Freehold, January 1, 1885. 
m. Nov. 28. 1854, Peter Bowen Van Schoick. 




EhEN'EZER KllRMAN. 

b. iS.j. 

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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 83 

Children by 2nd marriage : 

6, Sarah Rue, b. Freehold, May 5, 1834, d. Manalapan Dec. 27, 1893. 
m. January 2, 1855, Jacob Edwards. 

7, Lydia Rue, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., March 31, 1836. 
m. Dec. 7, 1853, Thomas J. Hyatt. 

8, Martha Rue, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., March 5, 1838, d. Manalapan, 

Dec. 20, 1881. 
m. Feb. 14, 1866, Peter Forman Perrine. No children. 

9, John I. Rue, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., March 1, 1840, d. Marlboro, 

N. J., Sept. 21, 1896. 
m. Dec. 7, 1865, Adaline Armstrong. One child, Elizabeth Armstrong 
Rue. 

10, Fransinchy Rue, b. Monmouth Co., N. J., July 12, 1842. 

m. Feb. 12, 1868, Edward Hendrickson. Children : 1, Arthur Hoxey 
Hendrickson ; 2, Elizabeth Wyckoff Hendrickson. 

Augustus Anderson. 

m. May 17, 1843, Ann, dau. of Josiah and Fransinchy (Forman) Van 
Schoick. 
Children: (All born at Manalapan, Monmouth Co., N. J.) 

1, Mary Cook Anderson, b. Feb. 28, 1844, d. April 1, 1844. 

2, Margaret Ann Anderson, b. Aug. 21, 1845. 

m. Dec. 6, 1865, Ancil Gilbert Dey — children: Augustus Anderson 
Dey, b. 1866, and Bertrand Harry Dey, b. 1876. 

3, Helen Wilson Anderson, b. Jan'y 7, 1848, d. Feb. 3, 1848. 

4, Lydia Maria Anderson, b. April 28, 1849, d. N. Y. City, Jan'y 30, 1899. 

5, John Rue Anderson, b. Oct. 20, 1851, d. West Freehold, Aug. 18, 1900. 
m. March 2, 1875, Sarah Clayton — children: Ira Ulman Anderson, b. 

1876, and Karl Augustus Anderson, b. 1880. 

6, Stephen Perrine Anderson, b. Feb. 9, 1854, d. N. Y. City, Dec. 12, 1899. 
m. 

7, Fransichy Rue Anderson, b. July 21, 1856. 
m. 

8, Helen Wilson Anderson, b. June 9, 1859. 

m. Feb. 15, 1894, Frederick Perrine— child, Stephen Anderson Perrine, 
b. Princeton, 1896. 

La Rue Craig Dye. 

m. May 12, 1852, Margaret Hance Van Schoick, dau. of Josiah and 
Fransinchy (Forman) Van Schoick. 
Children, (all born in New York City) : 

1, Julia Agnes Dye, b. Feb. 6, 1853, d. N. Y. City, July 4, 1853. 

2, Charles Augustus Dye, b. Sept. 26, 1854, d. May 14, 1855. 



84 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

3, Garrett Forman Dye, b. Aug. 18, 1856, d. July 1, 1858. 

4, Martha Rue Dye, b. Nov. 26, 1858. 

5, Maggie Dye, b. Dec. 20, 1862, d. January 31, 1864. 

6, La Rue Dye, b. January 7, 1869, d. Barre, Mass., Dec. 9, 1878. 

Peter Bowen Van Schoick. 

m. Nov. 28, 1854, Mary Eliza, dau. of Josiali and Fransinchy (Forman) 
Van Sclioick. 
Children (of whom the first three were b. in Marlboro, N. J.): 

1, Emma Van Sclioick b. Dec. 1, 1856. 

m. Oct. 16, 1879, Alonzo B. Magee. Children: Henry Lester Magee, 
Bertram, Viola, Alonzo and Howard. 

2, Samuel Van Schoick, b. March 28, 1859, d. the following day. 

3, John Rue Van Schoick, b. Aug. 25,. I860, d. Feb. 27, 1863. 

4, Charles Van Schoick, b. Prospect Plains, Middlesex Co., N. J., Oct. 

13, 1864, d. Oct. 10, 1872. 

5, Howard Sclienck Van Schoick, b. Gravel Hill, Middlesex Co., N. J., 

July 7, 1867. 
m. Nov. 25, 1887, Cornelia May West. Children: Florence and Howard. 

Jacob Edwards. 

m. January 2, 1855, Sarah, dau. of John M. and Fransinchy (For- 
man) Rue. 
Children (of whom all except the fourth were b. in Monmouth Co., N. J.): 

1, Matilda Edwards, b. Sept. 16, 1855. 

m. 

2, John Rue Edwards, b. June 18, 1857, d. April 14, 1881. 

3, Charles Augustus Edwards, b. Aug. 7, 1861. 

m. Aug. 23, 1890, Emma Louise Mount. Children : Luella and Harriet. 

4, Laura Edwards, b. N. Y. City, Aug. 4, 1863. 

m. 



5, Frank C. Edwards, b. April 6, 1872. 

6, Lemuel Freeman Edwards, b. Sept. 1, 1875. 

m. Dec. 31, 1897, . Child: Mildred. 

7, Harry Edwards, b. January 1, 1878. 

8, Jacob Edwards, b. June 28, 1881. 

Thomas J. Hyatt. 

m. Dec. 7, 1853, Lydia, dau. of John M. and Fransinchy (Forman) Rue. 
Children : 

1, Thomas Sherlock Hyatt, b. N. Y. City, Dec. 1, 1854, d. Feb. 23, 1863. 

2, Mary Frances Hyatt, b. N. Y. City, Oct. 10, 1856. 

m. June 26, 1877, Stephen Davison Day. Child: Thomas Hyatt Day. 




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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 85 

8, Lydia Rue Hyatt, b. Brooklyn, Aug. 15, 1858, d. Jersey City April 
11, 1895. 
m. May, 1886, Robert N. CheiTy. 

Gl. Ebenezer Foruian, sou of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Porniau b Dec 
15, 1802. 

m. 1st, Mary Johnson. 

m. 2nd, Nancy Gaston. No cliildreu by 2nd marriage. 
Children by 1st marriage : 

1, Mary Ann Formau, b. Manalapan, N. J., Nov. 16, 1827, d. Bristol, 

N. Y., Nov. 8, 1865. 
m. March 18, 1851, Josephus Wheaton. 

2, Garrett Forman, b. Gorham, N. Y., Aug. 11, 1829, d. Bayonne, N. J., 

Oct. 29, 1901. 
m. January 10, 1861, Abigail Voorhees. 

3, Esther Forman, b. July 12, 1834, at Gorham, N. Y. 
m. Nov. 25, 1855, Alvah Wheaton. 

4, Lydia Forman, b. , 1836, at Gorham, N. Y., d. Sept. 8, 1896, at 

Niles, Mich, 
m. 1st, Edwin McCumber. 
m. 2nd, April, 1877, Richard Thomas, 
m. 3rd, April 5, 1887, Augustus Woodford. 

Josephus Wheaton, b. Swansea, Mass., Dec. 15, 1824. 

m. March 18, 1851, Mary Ann, dau. of Ebenezer and Mary (Johnson) 
Forman, 
Children: 

1, William Henry Wlieaton, b. Gorham, N. Y., April 16, 1852, d. Oct. 

30, 1881. 
m. Nov. 24, 1877, Alice Albina Hurlbert — son: Clarence R. Wheaton, 
b. Bristol, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1878. 

2, Garrett Forman Wlieaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., Dec. 1858. 

m. May 10, 1883, Mira Kempton Davis — children: 1, Mabel Kent 
Wheaton; 2, Florence Elsie; 3, James David; 4, Ruth Esther; and 
5, Lois Anna Wheaton. 

3, Anna Marie Wheaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1863. 

m. Nov. 10, 1885, Anthony Reuben Tufts, b. March 9, 1857— children: 
1, Howard Wheaton Tufts; 2, Helen Elizabeth Tufts, both born 
at Canandaigua, N. Y. 

Garrett Forman, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Johnson) Forman, b. Aug. 11, 
1829, d. Oct. 29, 1901. 

m, Jan'y 10, 1861, Abigail Voorhees. 



86 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Children, (all born at Englishtown, N. J.) 

1, Charles H. Formau, b. Jan'y 27, 1862, d. Sept. 13, 1862. 

2, Archibald Cobb Forman, M. D., b. Dec. 24, 1864. 
m. June 2, 1898, Anna Regina Love. 

3, Alvah Wheaton Forman, b. April 8, 1866; resides at Bayonne, N.J. 
m. Oct. 19, 1892, Emma Chamberlain — cliildren, 1, Arcliiliald Cham- 
berlain Forman; 2, Helen Forman; 3, Margaret, d. in infancy. 

4, Helen Wilson Forman. 

m. Jany. 1, 1901, Samuel Conover Laird. 

5, Mary Anna Cobb Forman. 

m. March 20, 1895, George Dobson Vandenbergh — son, Garrett For- 
man Vandenbergh, b. June 22, 1896, at Englishtown. 

6, Caroline Lewis Forman, d. in childhood. 

Alvah Wlieaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1833. 

m. Nov. 25, 1855, Esther, dau. of Ebenezer and Mary (Johnson) For- 
man. 
Children: 

1, Eva Wheaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1856, d. there May 26, 1875. 
m. Jan'y 1, 1874, Hotchkiss. 

2, Carrie Wheaton, b. Bristol, N. Y., July 4, 1865. 

m. 1st, April 5, 1882, Charles Artliur Bacon— Children : 1, Harry Wil- 
liam Bacon, b. South Bend, Ind., 1884; 2, Isabelle Morgan Bacon, 
b. St. Joseph, Mich. 

m. 2nd, Dec. 1, 1897, Harry Edwin Hurd. 

3, Helen Wheaton, b. May 20, 1869, d. Jany 1, 1875. 

4, Sadie Wheaton, b. Sept. 7, 1875, d. Sept. 19, 1876. 

62. Peter Cadmus, b. Passaic, N. J., April 19, 1805, d. April 3, 1895. 

m. Dec. 25, 1829, Esther, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. 
Freehold, N. J., June 14, 1805, d. Aug. 1, 1894. 
Children: 

1, Andrew Louis Cadmus, b. Gorham, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1830, served four 

years in Civil War. 
m. July 4, 1867, Emeline Frisby — 5 childnm. 

2, Phebe Ann Cadmus, b. Colebrook, Ohio, Jan'y 25, 1833, d. May 9, 1857. 

3, Jonathan Forman Cadmus, b. Colebrook, Feb. 13, 1835. 
m. 1863, Martha Bartholomew — 6 children. 

4, Penelope Cadmus, b. Colebrook, May 30, 1837, d. Dec. 29, 1852. 

5, Sybil Cadmus, b. Austinburg, Ohio, June 1, 1839, d. Jan'y 25, 1869. 
m. 1863, Lee Parks— dau. Flora Parks, d. 1878. 

6, John Henry Cadmus, b. Austinburg, Nov. 17, 1841, served two years 

in Civil War, d. Sept. 4, 1872. 




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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 87 

7, Thomas Edgar Cadmus, b. Austiuburg, Aug. 29, 1843, d. 1900. 

m. Alice Young of Harpersfleld, Ohio, and removed to Sunrise City, 
Minn.— 4 children: 1, Harry; 2, Jerome; 3, Sybil; 4, Carrie. 

8, Amos Cadmus, b. Austiuburg, April 27, 1847, d. March 12, 1848. 

9, Frank Amos Cadmus, b. Austiuburg, March 27, 1851. d. May 23, 1902. 

Andrew Louis Cadmus, son of Peter and Esther (Forman) Cadmus, b. Gor- 
ham, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1830, soldier in the Union Army, resides in Austiuburg, Ohio, 
m. July 4, 1867, Emetine Frisby. 

Children : 

1, Mintilla Nancy Cadmus. 

m. May 14, 1902, Ernest Jay Green of Austiuburg, Ohio. 

2, Dora Sybil Cadmus. 

3, Elizabeth Lena Cadmus. 

m. May 14, 1897, Thomas C. McKee of Springfield, Pa. 

4, Richard Henry Cadmus. 

5, Victor AncLrew Cadmus. 

Jonathan Forman Cadmus, son of Peter and Esther (Formaii) Cadmus, b. 
Colebrook, Ohio, Feb. 13, 1835, resides in Harpersfleld, Ohio, 
m. 1863, Martha Bartholomew. 

Childi'en : 

1, Flora Theresa Cadmus. 

m. 1887 Salmon Howard of Austiuburg, Ohio. 

2, Homer Marcus Cadmus, resides in Cleveland, Ohio, 
m. 

3, William Henry Cadmus. 

m. 1901, Myrtle D. Carmichael. 

4, Rosa Grace Cadmus. 

5, Blaine Garfield Cadmus 



^ ^ ^ , twins. 

6, Garfield Blaine Cadmus 

63. Jacob Johnson. 

m. Lydia Ann, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. July 20, 
1807. Children: 1, Ann Maria; 2, Peter; 3, Abraham; 4, Eliza- 
beth ; 5, Catherine ; 6, Jacob. 

64. Jonathan Forman, son of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Free- 
hold, January 15, 1812. His father died when he was 13 years ,old. Two years 
later he removed with his mother, brothers, and sisters to Gorham, Ontario Co., 
New York, and in 1834 he removed to Colebrook, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, afterwards 
to Troy, Geauga Co., Ohio, and in 1853 to Austiuburg, Ohio, where he d. April 
10, 1883. 



88 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

m. 1st, July 4, 1839, Mary Lampson, b. Windsor, Oliio, Oct. 11, 1817, 

d. July 26, 1844. 
m. 2ud, March 5, 1845, Sally Peck, b. New Lyme, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1819. 

Children by 1st marriage: 

1, William Henry Forman, b. Troy, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1840, served 3 years in 

Civil War; was on Sherman's "March to the Sea"; resides in 
Peoria, Illinois, 
m. March 7, 1865, Roema Wellman. 

2, Mary Lucinda Forman, b. Troy, Ohio, January 10, 1843, d. Corry, Pa., 

Aug. 8, 1892. 
m. July 4, 1861, Nelson Spencer. Children: 3 daughters. 

Children by 2nd marriage : 

3, Matthew Grisel Forman, b. Troy, Ohio, Aug. 26, 1846. 
m. 1st, July 4, 1877, Sarah Callaway. 

m. 2nd, April 18, 1894, Mrs. Ann McDougal. 

4, Louisa Diana Forman, resides at Austinburg, Ohio. 

m. Nov. 12, 1887, Newton Merrill of Audover, Ohio, d. 1892. 

5, Sarah Ann Forman. 

6, Estella Bertha Forman. 

7, Cassius Clay Forman, resides in Austinburg, Ohio. 

m. January 1, 1887, Alice Coup. Son, Jonathan Coup Forman, b. 
Sept. 30, 1887. 

William Henry Forman, son of Jonathan and Mary (Lampson) Forman, b. 
Troy, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1840; soldier in Union army, removed to Geneva, Ohio, is now 
living in Peoria, Dlinois. 

m. Mch. 7, 1865, Roema Wellman. 

Children: 

1, Eva Forman. 

m. July 26, 1893, Charles Wood. 

2, Ethel Forman, twin sister of above, d. in infancy. 

8, Ethelyn Forman, d. in infancy. 
4, Florence Fonnan. 

Matthew Grisel Forman, son of Jonathan and Sally (Peck) Forman, b. Troy, 
Ohio, Aug. 26, 1846, resides in Austinbm-g, Ohio. 

m. Ist July 4, 1877, Sarah Callaway, d. Aug. 1, 1891. 

m. 2d April 18, 1894, Mrs. Ann McDougal. 
Children by first marriage: 

1, Eaii Gains Forman. 

2, Ruth Joan Forman. 

m. Nov. 26, 1897, Philip Becker of Warren, Ohio. 




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3, LaRue Dye Forman. 

4, Gleiiu Matthew Formau, died aged 8 years. 

5, Blanche Irene Forman. 

6, Ethel Ernestine Forman. 

7, Matthew Forman, d. in infancy. 

65. Silas Peck. 

m. Phebe Forman, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Aug. 
15, 1814, d. April 2, 1895. 
Children : 

1, Helen Peck, b. New Lyme, Ohio, 1838, d. 1897. 
m. John Fillmore. 

2, Ninette Peck. 

m. William Kelsey. 

66. Catherine Formau, dau. of Garrett and Anna (Karr) Forman, b. Free- 
hold, N. J., Aug. 14, 1821, d. Oct. 30, 1900. 

m. Duren Way, of New Lyme, Ohio. 

Children : 

1, Jerome Way, b. Colebrook, Ohio, Mch. 30, 1845. 

m. Emily Fobes of Wayne, Ohio — children: 1, Wm. Duren Way; 2, 
Lynn Jerome Way; 3, Karl Martin Way; 4, Alice Catherine Way. 

2, Mary Jennette Way, d. 1876. 

m. Byrom M. Barber, of Colebrook. 

3, Sarah Ann Way. 

m. Sigismar D. Beckwith, of New Lyme — child: Elwin Beckwith. 

4, Martin Way. 

m. Nellie Smith, of Wayne, Ohio — children: 1, Elizabeth J. Way; 2, 
Leland Way. 

5, Emma Frances Way. (Superintendent State Normal School, San 

Diego, Cal.) 

6, Elizabeth Way, d. 1878. 

67. Peter Forman, sou of William and Frausinchy (Heudrickson) Forman, 

b. 1781, d. 1838. 
m. 1st, Rebecca Ely. 
m. 2nd, Phoebe Ely. 

Children by first marriage: 

1, William P. Forman, b. 1807, d. 188-; was member of New Jersey legis- 
lature, 1838-9; Judge Court of Common Pleas of Moinnouth Co., 
1843-8, and 1852, 1867; resided at Manalapan, N. J.; author of an 
interesting little book on the family history. 



90 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

m. 1828, Evelina Baird, b. 1805, d. 1883, dau. of Captain David Baird 
of the Revolution. 

2, Sarah Ely Forman. 

m. William I. Perriue — 6 children. 

3, Isaac Ely Forman. 

m. Elizabeth Ann Ely. 

Judge William P. Forman, b. 1807, d. 188—. 

m. 1828, Evelina Baird. 
Childi-en : 

1, Fransinchy Rebecca Forman. 
m. James Cook Rue. 

2, Mary Elizabeth Forman. 

m. John Van Mater, of Colts Neck, N. J. 

3, Peter Forman, member of legislature, civil engineer and surveyor, res, 

Manalapan. 
m. 1884, Maggie L. Van Doren— 3 children: 1, Hope Forman; 2, Evelyn 
Forman, and 3, John V. D. Forman. 

68. Samuel William Forman, son of William and Fransinchy (Hendrickson) 
Forman, b. Monmouth Co., N. J.. March 18, 1794, d. April 27, 1875, buried Oak- 
wood Cemetery, Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. 

111. 1st, March 10, 1817, Mary Clayton, d. Oct. 19, 1838, buried at Warren. 

m. 2nd, Feb. 17, 1847, Mrs. Mary W. Clark. 

Children by first marriage : 

1, Fransinchy Forman, b. Sept. 26, 1818, d. June 18, 1844, buried at 

WaiTen. 

2, Mary Claytou Forman, b. March 13, 1821, d. March 9, 1895, buried at 

WaiTen. 

3, Margaret Clayton Forman, b. Sept. 7, 1823, d. April 9, 1887, buried at 

Warren. 

4, William Henry Forman, b. Aug. 2, 1826, d. March 29, 1869, buried at 

Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati. 

5, Jonathan Clayton Forman, b. Gorham, Ontario Co., New York, 

Sept. 11, 1830. 
m. Elizabeth Custis Darroch. 

6, John Clayton Forman, b. Ashtabula Co., Ohio, Dec. 4, 1833, d. July 

18, 1862, buried at Cincinnati ; was an editor and printer, 
m. Caroline Reed, d. 1891, — only child: Mary Jane Forman. 

Children by second marriage, all born at Braceville, Ohio. 

7, Frances L. Forman, b. Nov. 19, 1847. 
m. , — children. 



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8, Catherine Eliza Forman, b. Nov. 16, 1849. 
m. twice, now deceased — no children. 

9, Emma Ormsby Forman, b. April 4, 1854. 
m. Allen ; — children. 

10, Charles Edward Forman, b. June 27, 1857, d. April 5, 1881; was a 
druggist at Braceville. 



JONATHAN CLAYTON FORMAN. 

69. Jonathan Clayton Forman of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Goi-liam, 
New York, in 1830. His father, Samuel W. Forman, who was born in New Jersey, 
removed to the then West, and died in Warren, Ohio, in 1875, aged 81. He was a 
man of great strength of character and much respected. 

Jonathan C. Forman entered a j)rinting office when quite young, and thor- 
oughly mastered the business. In 1867 he was admitted to partnership with 
Sanford &, Hayward, then the leading printers and bookbinders in Cleveland. In 
1876 the establishment was purchased by Short & Forman. About November, 
1890, a stock company was formed under the name of The Porman-Bassett-Hatch 
Company, of which Jonathan C. Forman is president. The business of the com- 
pany is that of printers, lithographers, blank book manufacturers and stationers. 
Mr. Forman has invented a patent wave line appliance for ruling, which has met 
with much success, and is also the holder of many other patents for devices of his 
invention for economizing labor and beautifying work. He is a member of the 
Republican party and has rendered effective service to that organization, but has 
never sought political office, preferring to devote himself to his large business 
interests. He is a member of the Tippecanoe and Union Clubs of Cleveland. 

Jonathan Clayton Forman, b. Gorham, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1830, resides at 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

m. June 20, 1853, Elizabeth Custis Darroch of Scotland, d. April 12, 
1896, buried at Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland. 
Children : 

1, Samuel William Forman, b. at Cleveland, Aug. 1, 1854, d. March 16, 1892. 
m. Ida Kenney. Children: 1, Elizabeth Forman ; 2, Jonathan Clayton 

Forman. 

2, William Henry Forman, b. June 15, 1863, d. Dec. 7, 1863. 



DESCENDANTS OF SHERIFF DAVID FORMAN. 

70. Sheriff David Forman left three sons, all prominent men in the late 
18th and early 19th centuries, and all having grandchildren and great-grandchildren 
living in Monmouth Co. at the present time. 

Jonathan Forman, Sheriff David's eldest son, married Hope Rurrowes, sister 
of Major Joliu Rurrowes, of the Revolution. From this marriage, through their son, 
John Rurrowes Forman, there is but one line, that of Mrs. Fitz Randolph, daughter 



92 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

of John BuiTowes Forman, and widow of Bennington Fitz Randolph, who resides at 
Freehold with her two daughters and has two other daughters living. Of these, 
one is the widow of Governor Joseph I). Bedle, of New Jersey, the other is the 
widow of Flavel McGee, a prominent lawyer. Both these ladies reside with their 
families in Jersey City. 

Tunis Forman, (1761-1837), second son of Sheriff David, married Eleanor 
Remsen. The story of his bravery during the Revolutionary war will be told later. 
In the male line, Tunis Forman is represented by a grandson, Mr. Edward T. For- 
man, of Bi'ooklyn, and his son. Mr. Edward T. Forman is the son of Jonathan and 
Matilda (Scudder) Forman. Catherine Louisa Forman, the only daughter of Tunis, 
married Dr. Edward Taylor, of Middletown, Monmouth Co., N. J., and there are a 
number of descendants through this line, among whom is Dr. Edward Taylor, a 
prominent physiolan of Middletown, and a grandson of Tunis Forman. 

Dr. Samuel Forman, (176-4-184-), the youngest son of Slieriff David Forman, 
was a noted physician at Freehold. By his second wife, Sarah Tlirockmortou, he 
left two sons, John Fisher Forman, and Richard. There are children and grand- 
children of these now living in Fi-eehold. Dr. D. McLean Forman, of Freehold, and 
his brother Dr. Samuel Randolph Forman, of Jersey City, (sons of John Fisher 
Forman) , are prominent physicians in their respe(;ti ve places of residence. Dr. Samuel 
Forman, of Freehold, (the elder) had an only daughter Anne, who married Joseph 
FitzRandolph, uncle of Bennington FitzRandolph above mentioned. Theodore Fitz 
Randolph, who was Governor of New Jersey, 1869-72, was their cousin. The family 
of FitzRandolph is descended from Edward FitzRandolph, who came to Massachusetts 
in 1630. At the present time the prefix is commonly dropped. 

The will of David Forman of Freehold,' dated Feb. 24, 1802, probated 1813, 
speaks of him as " being anshant "'; it names "wife Nelle's sons Jonathan, Tunis and 
Samuel " : " daughter Ann Floyd " : "Jonathan's son David ; Samuel's son David." 

71. (Sheriff) David Forman, son of Jonathan and Margaret (Wyckoff) 
Forman, b. 1733, d. 1812. His commission as Higli Sheriff of Monmouth Co., Oct. 
10, 1780, is in possession of the N. J. Historical Society, 
m. Anna Denise. 

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1, Jonathan Forman, b. April 16, 1758, d. January 29, 1803. 

m. Hope Burrowes (sister of Maj. John Burrowes), b. Dec. 26, 1759, 
d. May 11, 1806. 

2, Tunis Forman, b. 1761, d. 1837. 

m. Eleanor Remsen, b. 1778, d. 1835. 

3, (Dr.) Samuel Forman, b. 1764, d. 184-. 
m. 1st, Ann Rogers — no children. 

m. 2nd, Sarah Throckmorton — 3 sons, 1 dau. 

4, Anna Forman. 
m. Corlies Lloyd. 

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72. Jonathan Forman, son of (Sheriff) David Forman, b. 1758, d. 1803. 
m. Hope BuiTowes, b. 1759, d. 1806. 



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1, Mary Ann Forman, b. 1784, d. 1810. 

2, Catherine Forman. 
m. Ebenezer Rose. 

3, Diana Forman. 

m. Rev. I. Linn Shafer. 

4, John Burrowes Forman, b. 1786, d. 1853. 
m. Hope B. Henderson, b. 1787, d. 1823. 

5, (Dr.) David Forman, b. 1791, d. 1826. 

73. Jolm BiuTowea Forman, son of Jonathan and Hope (Burrowes) Forman, 
b. 1786, d. 1853. 

m. Hope B. Henderson, b. 1787, d. 1823. 



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1, Mary Ann Forman, b. 1812, d. 1884. 

2, Thomas Marshall Forman, b. 1814, d. 1817. 

3, Jonathan Forman, b. 1816. 

m. Mary Chamberlain, d. 1891. 

4, Eliza Forman, b. 1819. 
m. Bennington FitzRandolph, b. 1817, d. 1890. 



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8 children. 

Of the eight children of Bennington and Eliza (Forman) FitzRandolph, tliere 
are living four, viz: 

Althea, married Joseph D. Bedle, Governor of New Jersey, 1875-78; Miss 
Franc Forman FitzRandolph; Julia married Flavel McGee; and Isabelle Hamill 
married Rev. Albert Dod Minor. 



TUNIS FORMAN. 



74. The following incident from Barber and Howe's Historical Collections 
of New Jersey, p. 845, was incorporated by Judge Wm. P. Forman in his little book. 

On a fine morning in May, 1780, as the family of Mr. David Forman, sheriff 
of the county, were at breakfast, a soldier almost out of breath suddenly burst into 
the room and stated that he and another soldier were conducting to the court house 
two men taken up on suspicion at Colt's Neck; they had knocked down his comrade, 
seized his musket and escaped. The sheriff, on hearing this relation, immediately 
mounted his horse and galloped to the court house to alarm the guard. His son 
Tunis, a lad of about seventeen, and small of his age, seized a musket loaded only 



94 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

with small shot to kill blackbirds in the corn-fields, and putting on a cartridge box. 
dispatched his brother Samuel upstairs for the bayonet, and thru without waiting 
for it, hurried off alone in the pursuit. 

After moving in a westerly direction about a mile he discovered the men 
sitting on a fence, who on perceiving him, ran into a swamp. As the morning w;i- 
warm he hastily pulled off his coat and shoes and dashed in after them keepiiijj 
close upon them for over a mile. When they got out of the swamp each climbed 
into separate trees. As he came up they discharged at him tlie musket taken from 
the guard. The ball whistled over his head, he felt for his bayonet, and at that 
moment perceived that in his haste it was left behind. He then pointed his gun at 
the man with the musket, but deemed it imprudent to fire, reflecting even if he 
killed him his comrade could easily master such a stripling as him.self. 

He compelled the man to throw down the musket by threatening him with 
death if he did not instantly comply. Then loading the prize from the cartridge 
box, he forced his prisoners down the trees, and armed witli his two loaded muskets 
he drove them toward the court house, careful, however, to keep them far apart to 
prevent convereation. Passing by a spring they requested permission to drink. 
"No," replied the intrepid boy understanding their design, " you can do as well 
without it as myself; you shall have some by and by.'' 

Soon after, his father at the head of a party of soldiers in pursuit, galloped 
passed in the road within a short distance. Tunis halloed, but the clattering of 
their horses' hoofs drowned his voice. At length he reached the village and lodged 
his prisoners in the county prison. 

It was subsequently learned that these men, whose names were John and 
Robert Smith, were brothere from near Philadelphia; that they had robbed and 
mui'dered a Mr. Boyd, a collector of taxes in Chester county, and when taken were 
on their way to join the British. As they had been apprehended on suspicion, 
merely, of being refugees, no definite charge could then be bi-ought against them. 

A few days after, Sheriff Forman .saw an advertisement in a Pennsylvania 
paper describing them, with the facts above mentioned, and a reward of $20,000 
(continental money) ofl:ered for their apprehension. He, accompanied by his son, 
took them on there, where they were tried and executed. On entering Philadelphia 
Tunis was carried thi-ough the streets in triumph upon the shoulders of the mili- 
tary. In the latter part of the war, this young man became very active, and was 
the particular favorite of Gen. David Forman. 

N. B. — This account was taken from the lips of Dr Samuel Forman, who was 
then the boy Samuel who was sent upstairs for the bayonet, and was related by him 
when the transactions in question were fresh in his mind. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 95 



Descendants of Aaron Fornian (1699-1742), Third Son of High Sheriff 

Samuel Forman of Monmouth. 



75. Aaron Forman, b. May 22, 1699, married Ursula Craig, daughter of 
Archibald Craig, who is styled "Esq." on his tombstone at "Old Scots" burying 
ground. Archibald Craig died in 1751, and left a will, dated 1750, by which he 
left forty pounds to " my well-beloved daughter, widow Ursula Forman." Aaron 
Forman was a pewholder in the old Tennent Church. He died in 1742, and is 
buried at " Wyckoff Hill." His will dated Dec. 31, 1741, at Freehold, mentions 
his wife Ursula, his eldest son George, not of age at the time, also three other sons : 
Lewis, Andrew and Robert, and three daughters : Priscilla, Lydia and Phoebe — all 
f minors ; his wife Ursula, and his two brothers, Jonathan and John Forman, and 
brothers-in-law, Samuel Craig and William Madock, are appointed executors. Wit- 
nesses were Samuel Throckmorton and Aiiibrose Stelle. The will was probated 
Feb. 12, 1742 (1741, old style), (Liber C of Wills, p. 479, at State Capitol.) 

Lewis Forman, son of Aaron and Ursula (Craig) Forman, was born and 
brought up in Monmouth Co., and removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey. Before 
his removal he was a pewholder in the Tennent Church. He was an ardent Loyalist 
during the Revolution. Lewis' son William — he had other sons — was born in New 
Brunswick, lived and died there. William had several sons, one of whom, Lewis, 
born in New Brunswick removed at the age of 1 7 to New York City to be with his 
uncle Aaron Forman, who was established there as a book publisher. The last 
named Lewis Forman, who died in New York in 1891, was the father of Mr. William 
Henry Forman of New York City, whose researches in the history of the family have 
been far more extensive and valuable than those of any previous investigator. 



Descendants of Captain John Forman (1701-1748) Fourth Son of High 
Sheriff Samuel Forman of Monmouth Co., N. J. 



76. Captain John Forman carried on the business of blacksmith at Free- 
hold. He married Jane Wyckoff. The childi-en mentioned in his will were, sons: 
John, Samuel, and another son James, mentioned in the codicil to the will. 
Daughters: Mary, the eldest, wife of Joseph Throckmorton, Hannah, Margaret, 
Rebecca and Anne. The will, which is dated May 13, 1747, states that liis wife 
Jane is to stay on the plantation, with 366 acres of woodland added for firewood 
and timber. His son John, under age at the time, is to carry on the smith's trade. 



96 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

The daughters are to have their inlieritaiice at their coming of age or when they are 
married. His sou Samuel, when lie is of age, to have 150 pounds and 198 acres (^) 
in Upper Freehold. The rest of the estate is to be divided among the daughters. 
The executors are: Wife, Jane, brother Jonathan Forman, brother-in-law, William 
Madock, son-in-law Joseph Throckmorton. 

Witnesses: Dan Van Mater, Daniel Grandin, George Forman. 

The witnesses to the codicil: Gysbert Van Mater, Samuel Mount, William 
Madock, Jr. 

Captain John Foi-man is buried at Wyckoff Hill, and his tombstone reads: 

Here Lyes Interr'd the Body of 
Cap* John Forman Who Departed 
this Life November y» twenty fifth 
Annoq Domini one Thousand Seven 
Hundred Forty Eight Aged Forty 
Seven years two months & two Days 

John Forman (b. 1736) who married Eleanor Denise, daughter of Teunis 
Denise, is believed to be correctly identified as the eldest son of Captain John For- 
man. John Forman tlie younger, had a son Denise. Denise Forman, who must not 
be confused with his cousin of the same name, was the father of Mrs. Alice Forman, 
now living at Freehold, the widow of John Conover Forman, son of Tunis Forman 
the Revolutionary hero. 



COLONEL SAMUEL FORMAN. 

It is believed that the Samuel Forman, who was Colonel of the 2nd Regiment 
New Jei-sey militia in the Revolution was the son of Capt. John Forman. Colonel 

Samuel Forman was twice married. His first wife Anne , was born in County 

Kildare, 18 miles from Dublin, Ireland, on June 21, 1737, was married April 28, 
1756, and died Oct. 12, 1770. Colonel Samuel Forman s second wife was Elizabeth, 
the only sister of General David Forman, his first cousin. They were married Oct. 
22, 1772, she died Nov. 28, 1781. There were no children by either marriage. Col. 
Samuel and his two wives are buried under St. Peter's Episcopal church at Freehold. 
He was born Feb. 1, 1734. This and the other dates are from a stray leaf which 
has been preserved from his Bible. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 97 



Descendants of Joseph Forman (1703-1775), Fifth Son of High Sheriff 
Samuel Forman of Monmouth Co., N. J. 



77. Joseph Forman, according to the statement furnished to Miss Woodhull 
by his granddaughter, Miss Malvina Forman, in 1871, was a wealthy sliipping mer- 
chant in New York City, afterwards retired from business, and settled on one of his 
farms in Monmouth Co., N. J. In a manuscript written in 1851 by Gov. John 
Cliambers, a distinguished citizen of Kentucky who was Governor of Iowa Territory 
in 1841, it is stated : " My father in early manhood was sent to New York and was 
employed as a clerk in an extensive mercantile establishment belonging to Mr. 
Joseph Forman, who had married Betty Lee, my grandmother's sister. From your 
grandfather's account of Mr. Forman, who was always called by a numerous con- 
nection ' Uncle Josey,' he must have been one of the most excellent men of his day." 
This extract is furnished by Mrs. Mai'garet (Brent) MacKoy of Covington, Ky., a 
granddaughter of Gov. Chambers. The manuscript mentions that Gen. David 
Forman was one of the sons of Joseph and Betty Forman, and says further : " My 
grandmother and Aunt Betty Forman had two or more brothers, one of whom settled 
in Virginia and one in Maryland," and that Gen. Henry Lee was a descendant of 
the one who settled in Virginia. In the last statement he is doubtless mistaken. 
Miss Anna M. Woodhull of Freehold found in a deed dated March 18, 1761, the 
name of David Lee of Windsor, in Middlesex Co., N. J. 

James Chambers maiTied 8arah Lee, their son Rowland was the father of 
Gov. John Chambers. Gen. Benjamin Chambers, another son of James, married 
Elizabeth Forman, daughter of Ezekiel, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lee) Forman. 
Hence Gov. John Chambers and Judge Ezekiel Forman Chambers of Maryland were 
first cousins. (Information supplied by Mrs. MacKoy). 

78. Joseph Forman, son of Samuel and Mary (Wilbur) Forman, b. Dec, 
1703, d. July 14, 1775. 

m. Sept. 22, 1732, Elizabeth Lee, d. Oct. 15, 1774, aged 64. 



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1, Joseph Forman, b. Oct. 27, 1734. 
m. April 24, 1765, Amelia Gale. 

2, Ezekiel Forman, b. Oct. 10, 1736, d. May 29, 1795. 

m. first, Augustine Marsh, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Thompson) Marsh, 
m. second, Margaret Neilson. 

3, Elizabeth Forman, b. March 28, 1740, d. Nov. 28, 1781. 

m. Oct. 22, 1772, Colonel Samuel Forman (his second wife). 

4, Stephen Forman, b. May 10, 1743. 



98 THF FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

5, David Foniian, b. Nov. 3, 1745, d. Sept. 12, 1797. 

m. Ann Marsii, dan. of Tlunna.s and Ann (Krisby) Marsli. 

6, Aaron Fonnan. b. Feb. 1. 1748. 

79. Josepli Forman, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Lee) Fonnan, b. Oct. 27, 1734. 
m. April 24. 1765, Amelia Gale. 



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1, Elizabeth Forman, b. in New Jersey April 15, ITtiti, d. at Natehez, 1810. 

2, Stephen Forman, b. Jnne 18, 1708. d. at Long Marsh, Queen Anne's 

Co., Maryland. 
m. 

3, William Gordon Forman, b. June 22, 1770, d. at Lexington, Ky., Oct. 

3, 1812. 
m. first, Sarah Marsli Fonnan. dau. of Gen. David Forman, b. Feb. 1, 

1773. 
m. second, Sarah, dau. of Rev. Dr. John Woodhull, b. at Freehold, 

N. J., March 28, 1781, d. at Natchez, Nov. 13. 1811. 

4, Joseph Forman, b. June 8, 1773. 

m. April 26. 1803, at Shrewsbuiy, N. J., Catherine Remsen Holmes, b. 
June 13, 1786, dau. of Obadiah and Catherine (Rem.sen) Holmes. 

5, Matthias Forman, b. July 1, 1775, d. very young. 



The Forman Family at Natchez and in the State of Mississippi. 

80. Ezekiel Forman (1736-1795), second son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lee 
Forman, married as his first wife, Augustine (or Augustina) Mai-sh, a daughter of 
Thomas Marsh of Maryland. It was at Ezekiel Forman's house at Princeton, N. J., 
that his brother David was married in 1767. Ezekiel Forman was commissioned as 
High Sheriff of Kent Co., Md., January 14, 1776. The Archives of Maryland show 
that on Nov. 5, 1777, "Ezekiel Forman, Esq., is appointed Paymaster to the Eastern 
Shore Marching Militia . . . ." \\\ the same year he was a member of the council 
of safety of Maryland. He married his second wife, Margaret Neilson, at Phila- 
delphia and was living there in 1789, when, arrangements having been made by 
Gen. David Forman with the Spanisli minister to procure land in the Natchez 
country, Ezekiel Forman with his family journeyed down the Ohio and Mississippi, 
and established himself as a tobacco planter at the Wilderness Plantation on St. 
Catherine's Creek, about foui- or five miles from Natchez. Here in 1795 he died. 
Besides Margaret Douglas Forman. aged 39 ; Ann, aged 14 months ; David, aged 34 ; 
Ezekiel, aged 23 ; all children of the second marriage, there is buried at Natchez 
with her sons, Elizabeth, wife of Gen. Benjamin Chambers of Chestertown, Md., 
who was a daughter of the first marriage. In Major S. S. Forman's Narrative^ 



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Ezekiel Forman is described as a "fine, portly looking man, neat and dignified; 
always wore powder, as all gentlemen did in those days, and large cocked hat." 

In the fall of 1796, Gen. David Forraan came to Natchez, and remained nntil 
the following August, when he left for his home at Chestertown, Maryland, and 
■ died before he reached there. 

Major William Gordon Forman, Gen. David Forman's nephew and son-in-law, 
seems to have been the next member of the family to take up his residence at 
Natchez. He was a son of Joseph Forman of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., N. J., 
graduated at Princeton in 1786, and became a lawyer. Miss A. M. Woodhull, who 
was a niece of Major W. G. Forman's second wife, writes that he " introduced Eli 
Whitney's celebrated cotton-gin into the state of Mississippi. He had previously 
gone abroad, and was i\\^Q first private American gentleman presented at the Court 
of George the Third. We have part of his costume worn on that occasion." He was 
Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Territorial Legislature of Mississippi 
in Jan'y, 1803.— (Claiborne's Mississippi— ^^^ii^Q 241). After his second wife'sdeath. 
Major W. G. Forman started north with his little daughter to bring her to her 
grandfather's, Dr. Woodhull's, in Monmouth, and was murdered at Lexington, Ky., 
it is supposed for purposes of robbery, by negroes or men in the house where he was 
stopj)ing. 

The next to come into \4ew at Natchez is Joseph, a brother of Major W. G. 
Forman. Joseph Forman bought the plantation on which liis uncle Ezekiel had 
settled, and lived and died a much respected citizen of Natchez where he was 
prominent in starting the Presbyterian church. None of Joseph's sons grew to man- 
hood. After the death of his eldest brother Stephen in Qiieen Anne's Co., Md., 
Joseph sent for Stephen's two young sons, Stephen, Jr., and Samuel. The widow 
of the elder Stephen married again at Red Bank, N. J., a Mr. Borden, and had two 
sons, Allen and Forman Borden, both of whom married and had children. 

Stephen Forman the younger married in Mississippi, a granddaughter of 
Governor Howell, of New Jersey. Accounts of two of their sons will be given later. 



THE HOWELL FAMILY. 

81. Howell of Caerleon, Wales, had a son, Howell of Caer- 
philly, Glamorganshire, Wales, who removed to Delaware in 1690. Tlie latter's 
grandson, Richard Howell, born in Delaware in 1753, married Keziah Burr, a mem- 
ber of the Society of Friends, and before the Revolutionary War was a lawyer at 
Mount Holly, N. J. He served with distinction in the Revolutionary War and rose 
to be Major of the Second New Jersey ; became Governor of New Jersey in 1793 and 
was re-elected for several successive terms. One of his daughters, Sarah, afterwards 
Mrs. James Agnew of Pittsburgh, was one of the ten young ladies who scattered 
flowers in Washington's path at Trenton bridge, and Gov. Howell wi'ote the poetical 
welcome recited on that occasion. Wm. Burr Howell, fourth son of the Governor, 
became an officer in the Marine Corps, served in the war of 1812 ; came to Natchez, 

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Miss., after the close of that war ami settled there. His house near Natchez was 
called "The Briers." Mrs. Jefferson Davis is a daughter of Wni. B. Howell. (Menioii 
of Jefferson Davis, 1890, by Mi-s. Davis.) 

Charles B. Howell, another son of the Governor, was the father of Keziali B. m 
Howell, who married Stephen Fornian (see above). |i 



82. Steplien Ft)rman, son of Joseph and Amelia (Gale) Forman, b. .June 13, 
1768, d. at Long Marsli. Queen Anne's Co., Md. 

m. 

1. Stephen Forman. 

m. 1825, Keziah B., dan. of Charles B. Howell. 
~ --2, Samuel Forman (went West — no record of mari-iage or death obtainable.) 
Note: — The order of birth of the two foregoing is not ascertained. 

83. Stephen Forman, son of Stephen and Forman, born in New Jersey. 

m. 1825 in Mississippi, Keziah B. Howell, dau. of Charles B. Howell. 



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1, Charles II. Forman, b. 1826. 
m. Martha Dorsey. 

2, Mary Jane Forman. b. 1828. 

m. Major Thos. Reed, an eminent lawyer of Natchez. 

3, Martha Forman, b. 1830. 

m. Hon. Thos. C. West of Jefferson Co., Miss. 

4, Richard Howell Forman, b. Feb. 19, 1833. 

m. first, Dec. 6, 1860, Emily A. Batchelor, d. May 31, 1883. 

m. second, Jan'y 18, 1888, Nydia Dockery,dau. of Gen. Thos. F. Dt)ckery. 

5, Stephen Samuel Forman, b. May 4, 1835, d. Aug. 15, 1896. 

m. Mary Coleman, dau. of Dr. F. B. Coleman, Jefferson Co., Miss. 

84. Charles H. Forman, son of Stephen and Keziah B. (Howell) Forman, 
b. 1826. 
m. Martha Dorsey. 



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1, Richard Forman, (deceased). 

2, Mary E. Forman. 

3, Martha L. Forman. 

m. Dr. Stroud of Henderson, Texas. 

4, Stephen C. Forman. 

m. Miss Northcut of Longview. Tex. 



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85. Major Thomas Reed, of Natchez, d. about 1891 aged 75. 

111. Mary Jane Formaii, dan. of Stephen & Keziali B. (Howell) Fovman 
■ b. 1828. 



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1, Jane Reed (deceased). 

2, Mary K. Reed (deceased). 

3, Richard Formau Reed. Lawyer at Natchez. 
m. Eula Holden. 

5, Susan Reed. 

6, Thomas J. Reed. 

8(>. Thos. C. West, of Jefferson Co., Miss. 

m. Martha Formau, dau. of Stephen and Keziah B. (Howell) Fornian. 



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1, Howell Formau West. 
m. Emmie Whitney. 

2, Emma West. 

3, Thomas C. West. 
m. Annie Patterson. 



RICHARD HOWELL PORMAN. 

87. Richard Howell Formau, second son of Stephen and Keziah B. Howell 
Formau, was born in Jefferson Co., Miss., Feb. 19, 1833. After a year spent in New 
Orleans with a cotton factorage house, during which occurred the great yellow fever 
epidemic of 1853, he returned on account of failing health to his home, Rodney, 
Miss. Three years thereafter he engaged on his own account in a general mercan- 
tile business which was continued until the outbreak of the war. Although his 
health and strength did not permit his enduring the hardships of military service, 
he was warmly devoted to the Confederate cause and held throughout the war the 
office of commissioner, to look after the families of destitute soldiers. In 1865 he 
became engaged in planting and has been president of the Stock Breeders' Associa- 
tion of the county, of the Horticultural Association, and twice of the Jefferson 
County Planters, Mechanics and Manufacturers Association. In 1884 he was 
appointed commissioner from Mississippi to the New Orleans Exposition. He has 
also been one of the trustees of the Female Academy, and has held many other 
official positions, which indicate the esteem in which he is held in his native state 
and county. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder. 
He resides upon his plantation near Fayette, Jefferson Co., Miss. 



102 Till- FOR MAN GENEALOGY. 

Richard Howell Formau, sou of Stephen and Keziah B. (Howell) Fovman, 1). 
F(;b. 19, 1833, resides near Fayette, Jefferson Co., Miss. ^ 

m. first, Dec. 6, 1860, Emily A. Batclielor, d. May 31, 1883. 

Hni. second, Jan. 18, 1888, Nydia Dockery, dau. of C4en. Thomas F. 
Dockery. 

1, George Dent Forman, b. Dec. 29, 1861. 

m. Dec. 4, 1884, Effie T. Torrey, dau. of Hoii. George Torrey, of Jeffer- 
son Co., Miss. 

2, Mary K. Formau, b. Sept. 25, 1865, d. Nov. 8, 1865. 

3, Liira Forman. 

4, Emily Formau, d. in infancy. 

5, Richard Howell Formau, d. in infancy. 

6, Evelyn Forman, d. 1893. 

7, Saidie L. Forman. 

88. George Dent Forman, son of Richard H. and Emily A. (Batclielor) For 
man, b. Dec. 29. 1861. 
m. Dec. 4, 1884, Effle T. Torrey, b. Jefferson Co., Miss., Aug. 13, 1861, 
d. Fayette, Miss., Sept. 14, 1895, dau. of Hon. George Torrey. 



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1, Richard T. Forman. 

2, Margaret Forman. 

3, Effie Formau. 

4, George Formau. 



STEPHEN SAMUEL FORMAN. 

89. Stephen Samuel Forman (1835-1896), the youngest brother of Richard 
Howell Forman, was born in Jefferson Co., Miss., where he resided many years and 
where he conducted a successful mercantile business. When the civil war began he 
enlisted iu the Jefferson Artillery, and remained throughout tlie hostilities a mem- 
ber of that organization. He was a good soldier and a respected and useful citizen. 
About 1881 he removed to Natchez, where in 1896 he died. His two sons, R. B. 
Forman and Stephen Formau, reside in Natchez, where they are in business. 

Stephen Samuel Formau, sou of Stephen and Keziah B. (Howell) Forman, b. 
May 4, 1835, d. Aug. 15, 1896. 

m. Mary, dau. of Dr. F. B. Coleman of Jefferson Co., Miss. 



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1, Richard B. Forman (resides at Natchez). 

2, Stephen Formau 

3, Lucille Forman 

Also, two daughters deceased. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 103 

1)0. Joseph Forman, b. 1773, son Joseph and Amelia (Gah^) Forinan. 
m. Catherine Remsen Hohues. 



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1, Amelia Gale Forman, b. at Middletown Point, N. J., Mch. 13, 1804, 

d. Nov., 1825. m. John Nugent at Washington, Adams Co., Miss., 1 822 
or 1823. Her dau. Catherine m. Rich'd Nugent, 1841, and left a 
son Rev. Perry Nugent of Salem, Va. 

2, Catherine Holmes Forman, b. Oct. 11, 1805, at Wilderness Plantation, 

near Natchez, d. 1818. 

3, Wm. Gordon Forman, b. at Natchez, Apr. 19, 1807, d. Nov. 15, 1839. 

4, dau. b. 1809, d. young. 

5, son b. 1810, d. young. 

6, Elizabeth Forman, b. at Natchez, Feb. 15, 1811. 

ni. Oct. 9, 1828, Benijah Osmun Smith. She d. at Montrose Planta- 
tion, the home of her dau. Mrs. Aby, Jan. 21, 1877. 

7, Joseph Forman, b. near Natchez, Sept. 6, 1812, d. 1829. 

8, Augusta Forman, b. Sept. 7, 1814, d. at Newark, N. J., Nov. 26, 1883. 
m. Wm. Van Wyck, of New York, about 1848. 

9, Sarah Marsh Forman, b. at Liberty, Miss., Mch. 21, 1816, d. St. Paul, 

Minn., July 25, 1870. 
m. Wm. Henry Dunbar, Mch. 18, 1835. She had several daughters 
and one sou, 'William Forman Dunbar, who m. Mary, dau. of Judge 
Joseph Shields of Natchez, and had 7 children. William Forman 
Dunbar served in the Confederate Army and is now dead. 

91. Elizabeth Forman. 

m. Benijah Osmun Smith. 

1, Stephen Forman Smith, b. 1829, d. 1886. 

ra. Alice Lake. He was Lieut, in Co. B, 38th Miss. Regt., Confed. Army. 

2, Joseph Calvin Smith, b. 1831, d. 1840. 

3, Catherine Priscilla Smith, b. 1832. 

m. Charles Ralston Byrnes, and has had 14 children of whom 6 survive. 

4, Helen Augusta Smith, b. 1834, d. 1893. 
m. Thomas J. Aby and had 5 children. 

92. Charles Ralston Byrnes (Lieut. Mabry's Brigade, Confederate Army), 
m. Sept. 18, 1850, Catherine Priscilla Smith, b. Springfield Plantation, 

I Dec. 19, 1832. 

1, Charles Ralston Byrnes, Jr. - 3, Benjamin Smith Byrnes. 

' m. Helen Metcalfe. m. Willie Venable Smith. 

2 Lissa Forman Byrnes, d. 1885. 4, Walter Stephen Byrnes, d. 1869. 

' m. Charles K. Regan. 5, Emily Augusta Byrnes, d. 1860. 



104 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

6, Percy Shields Byrnes. 11, Florence Undine Byrnes, 

m. Berry JeftVries. ni. Dr. McC'aleb. 

7, Martha Kate Byrnes, d. 1863. 12, Claude Renisen Bja-nes, d. 1875. 

8, Laura Augusta Byrnes, d. 1862. 13, Augustus McCaleb Byrnes. 

9, Etoile Kate Byrnes, d. 1866. 14, Burton Osmun Byrnes, d. 1883. 
10, Robert Lee Byrnes. 

m. Helen Ferriday. 

93. Ezekiel Forraan. son of Josepli and Elizabeth (Lee) Forman, b. October 
10, 1736, d. May 29, 1795, High SheritF, Kent Co., Md., 1776. 

m. 1st, Augustine dan. of Thomas and Mary Thompson Marsli. 



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1, Gen. Thos. Marsh Forman, b. Aug. 20, 1758. 

2, Col. Joseph Forman, b. Jan'y 10, 1761, d. April 14, 1805. 

3, Elizabeth Forman, b. June 11, 1762, d. Jan. 27, 1820. 
m. Gen. Benjamin Cliambers of Cliestertown, Md. 

4, Sarah Emory Forman, b. Oct. 1, 1763, d. Mch. 15, 1836. 
m. Andrew Van Bibber of Gloucester Co., Virginia. 

5, William Lee Forman. b. October, 1764, d. Oct. 4, 1804. 
m. Jane Spear, 
m. 2nd Margaret Neilson. 



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6, Augusta Forman, b. 1777 (^) d. aged 68, buried at Newaric, New Jersey, 

Mount Pleasant Cemetery. 

7, Margaret Douglas Forman, b. 1778, d. 1817, buried near Natchez. 

8, Frances Forman, b. 1782, d. Oct. 22, 1830, buried at Newark, N. J. 

9, David Forman, b. 1787, d. 1821, buried near Natchez. 

10, Ann Forman, b. 1790, d. 1791, buried near Natchez. 

11, Ezekiel Neilson Forman. b. 1792, d. 1816, buried near Natchez. 

12, Ann E. Forman, b. Dec. 24, 1795, d. Jan'y 5, 1872, buried at Mount 

Pleasant Cemetery. Newark, New Jersey. 
m. Rev. Daniel Smith, who predeceased her. 



ABSTRACT OF WILL. 

94. " I, Thomas Marsh of Queen Ann's County in the province of Maryland 
. . . being of sound mind, &c. . . . do give and be(iueath . . . All my lands in 
Cecil, and all my lands in Kent Island in Queen Ann's County and my plantation 
on the main road to Queen's Town in the s"d County which I lately bought of 
Thomas Emory unto my grandson, Thomas Marsh Forman and his Heirs . . . and 
for default of such heirs, to my grandson, Joseph Forman, and his heirs, and in 
default of such heirs to my gi-andson Wm. Forman, and his heirs, and for default of 




Gkx.cuai. TnnM as M aksm Kokmax. 
Keprotlui-cii bv (.'oiirUf.y of Mr. Mitrion 11. llciulcrsttii. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 105 

such heirs, to the first, second, third and foiirtli and every otluu- son and sons of the 
Body of my Daughter, Ann Porman . . . according to priority of birth . . . and in 
default of such heirs, to daughters of my daughter, Augustina and daughters of 
Ann. 

To my grandson, Jos. Forraan, grist-mill at Head of Island Creek ; and land 
near Kingstown, and houses (&c) in Chestertown . . . and for default of sucli heirs, 
to my grandson Thomas, and in default of such heirs to my grandson William, and 
and in default of such heirs to the first, second and third sons of my daughter Ann 
... in default, to daughters of Ann and Augustina . . . (other pi-operty, same 
reversion). To Thomas Whittington, son of Jane Whittington, my plantation bought 
of Walter Nevil ... in default of heirs, to grandson Jos. Forman, in default, to 
grandson Thomas Marsh Forman ... in default, to grandson Wm. Forman ... in 
default, to daughters of Ann and Augustina . . . Son-in-law Ezekiel Forman to have 
custody and management of Estate devised to Thos. Marsh Forman and of Estate 
devised to Thos. Whittington ... To Thos. Marsh Forman my Sword (&c) . 

All silver plate to two grand daughters, Elizabeth, daughter of Ezekiel For- 
man and my daughter xlugustina his wife, and Sarah, daughter of David Forman 
and my daughter Ann, his wife. . . . Executors — Son-in-law Ezekiel Forman and 
my friends, James Frisby, Thomas Ringgold, of Kent, and John Thompson and Dr. 
Samuel Thompson, his brother, of Queen Anne's County. . . . 

In witness (<fec) I hereunto set my hand and afiix my seal . . . F'eb. 3, 1 776. 
Prob. Jan. 7, 1782. Thomas Marsh. Seal. 

'Thomas Marsh and Mary Thompson were married the [blank] 

1740, K\ix\\ — was born Augustine Marsh, daughter of Thomas and Mary 
his wife. 

Thomas Marsh was married to his second wife Ann Frisby. 

1744, February 14tli was born Thomas Marsh son of Thomas and Ann. 

1746, June 8th, was born William Marsh. 

was born Sarah Marsh. 

1751, December 3d was born Ann Marsh. 



GEN. THOMAS MARSH FORMAN OF "ROSE HILL," MD. 

95. Thomas Marsh Forman, eldest son of Ezekiel and Augustine (Marsh) 
Forman, was born Aug. 20, 1758. Ezekiel was an elder brother of Gen. David 
Forman, and Augustine Marsh was a half sister of the General's wife. She 
was also descended from Augustine Herman, the founder of Bohemia Manor in 
Maryland in the 17th century. Thomas Marsh Forman joined Smallwood's Regi- 
ment as a cadet shortly before the battle of Long Island, the following winter was 
commissioned First Lieutenant in the Eleventh Pa. Regiment, subsequently became 
Captain in his Uncle David's Continental Regiment, and in 1779 succeeded James 
Monroe as staff officer to Maj. Gen. Lord Sterling. He served in the legislature in 



iPamily Bible of Gen. David Forman. 



106 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

1790, 1792 and 1800, and during tlie bombardment of Fort McHenry in the war of 
1812 commanded a brigade of militia. Gen. Thomas Mai'sli Forman inherited the 
fine estate of "Rose Hill" in Cecil Co., Maryland, which was during his lifetime the 
center of hospitality for the Eastern shore, and many distinguished persons were 
entertained there. During Lafayette's visit to this counti-y in 1824 Gen. Thomas 
Marsh Forman went with his carriage with four horses ami two servants in livery to 
meet the Marquis and took him in his carriage to Freuchtown where he took the 
steamboat to Baltimore. 

Thomas Marsh Forman was prominent in racing matters, and became the fii-st 
presidemt of the Maryland Jockey Club in 1830. He died in 1845. See Rev. H. E. 
Haydeu's "Virginia Genealogies" and Johnson's "History of Cecil Co., Maryland." 

The name is represented in Maryland to-day by descendants of Col. Joseph 
Forman, a brother of Gen. T. M. Forman. His nephew, Ezekiel Forman Chambers, 
was a very distinguished lawyer, twice United States Senator, and for many years 
Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. 

Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman, sou of Ezekiel and Augustine (Augustina) 
(Marsh) Forman, b. Aug. 20, 1758, d. 1845, buried at his home, " Rose Hill," Cecil 

Co., Md. 

m. 1st, Mary , d , buried at " Rose Hill." 

m. 2nd, May 19, 1814, at Christiana, New Castle Co., Delaware, Mrs. 
Martha Browne (Ogle) Callender, b. Feb. 6, 1788, d. at Newark, 
Del., July 25, 1864, buried at St. James, Stanton, Del., daughter 
of James and Ann Browne Ogle of Ogletown, New Ca.stle Co., 
Del. She was widow by first mai-riage of Captain James Roike 
Callender of Philadelphia, whom she married in 1808, and who 
was lost at sea with her youngest brother Francis Ogle in 1811. 
James Ogle, her father, was descended from John Ogle, who came 
to America with his servants in 1624. The Ogle family were from 
Northumberland, England. There were no children by her second 
marriage with Gen. Forman. 
Delia Forman. Gen. T. M. Forman's daughter, married Hon. Joseph Bryan, 

M. C, from Georgia. Their children were : 

1, John Randolph Bryan, b. 1806, d. 1887. 

m. 1830, Elizabeth Coalter of Virginia. Children: 1, John Coaltei' 
Bryan; 2, Delia Biyau; 3, Fanny Tucker Bryan; 4, Georgia 
Bryan; 5, Virginia MacKay Bryan; 6, John Randolph Bryan; 7, 
St. George Tucker Coalter Bryan; 8, Joseph Bryan; 9, Thomas 
Bryan; 10, Corbin Braxton Bryan. 

2, Georgia Hanna Bryan, b. 1807, d. 1887. 

m. 1826, Dr. James P. Sci-even of Georgia. Children: — 1 , (Colonel) John 
Screven; 2, Delia Screven; 3, Joseph Bryan Screven; 4, Sarah Ada 
Screven; 5, Thomas Forman Screven; 6, James Bryan Screven; 
7, George Proctor Screven. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 107 

3, Thomas Forman Bryan, b. 1809, cl. 1875. 
111. 1st, 1834, Florida Troup, clan, of Ex-Gov. Troup of Georgia. 
111. 2iid, Helen Brooke. Children by first marriage: 1, George Troup 

Bryan; 2, John Screven Bryan; 3, Hugh Bryan; 4, Ann Carter 
Bryan; 5, Augusta Forman Bryan; 6, Georgia Bryan Forman; 7, 
Thomas Marsh Forman. Children by second marriage : 8, Francis 
Brooke Forman ; 9, Florida Troup Forman ; 1 0, IIek;n May For- 
man; 11, Gabriella Brooke Fonnan. 

Note: — Thos. F. Bryan, in order to inherit the estate of his grandfather, 
changed his name to Thomas Marsh Forman, by autliority of 
the Legislature of Maryland, January 15, 1846. 

4, Virginia Sarah Bryan, b. 1810, d. 1838. 
m. 1835, William MacKay of Georgia. Children : William and Delia 

Bryan MacKay. 

5, Joseph Bryan, b. 1812, d. 1863. 
m. 1834, Jane Bourke of Georgia. Children: 1, Henry; 2, Alfred; 3, 

Virginia Jane; 4, Delia Ann ; 5, Joseph ; 6, Joseph ; 7, Thomas. 

9G. Col. Joseph Forman (son of Ezekiel and Augustine Marsh Forman), 
b. Jan. 1761, d. April 4, 1805, of Queen Anne's Co. Said to have been U. S. Consul 
! at Amsterdam. 

m. Mary Hemsley, dau. of Wm. Hemsley and his second wife, Henrietta 
I Maria Earle, of "Cloverfields," Queen Anne's Co. 

1, William Marsh Forman\ "died in the flower of his youth, at San 
Domingo." 

2, Henrietta Maria, 
m. April 16, 1807, Robt. Lloyd Tilghmair of "Hope," Talbot Co. 

(One son and three daughters.) 

3, Augustine, born 1788, died Sept. 31, 1866, at "Hope," buried at "Rose 
Hill," Cecil Co. 

4, EzekieP, b. , d. Apr. 18, 1823, at " Cloverfields." (Easton "Star," 

Apr. 22, 1823). 

m. Henrietta Maria Earle, dau. of James Earle and Anna Maria 
Tilghman. 

5, Anna Maria Ringgold Forman. 



'Earle Record 



^RfchlrcfTiLhman, surgeon, came to America from Kent, England, about 1G60. He received the grant of 
Canterbury Manor on Third Haven River but soon removed to the Hermitage. Many of his descendants have 



become prominent in the history of the country. 
^Major Ezekiel Forman. 



108 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

1)7. Major Ezekiel Forinan' of " Cloverfields," sou ot Col. Joseph Forman. 
m. Henrietta Maria Earle. 



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1, Ezekiel Tiionias Marsh Fonnaii, b. in Cliestertown, 1821. settled in 
Centreville; merchant; nieni. Episcopal church, d. suddenly June 
27, 1875. 
111. 1850, Henrietta Maria Tilghman, dan. of Peregrine and Harriet 
Tilghnian of "Tilghmau's Recovery." Q. A. To. 

2, Win. H. Fornuui, b. , d. 1868. 

ni. Marcia Ross Watts, d. 1884. 

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4 sons, 1 dan. 

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1, Peregrine Tilghman Forman, b. at "Recovery," Feb. 13, 1858; hardware 

merchant, Centreville. 
m. 1883. Florence Elma Rasin, d. 1884. (Dan. of Jos. M. Rasin.) 

2, Henry Forman. 

3, \\'illiani H. Forman. 

4, Ezekiel Marsh Forman. 1). in Centreville, Jan. 15, 1859; druggist in 

Centreville. 
m. S. Catherine Earle, dau. of Judge Sam'l T. Eaile, (April 28, 1881.) 

1, Peregrine Foi-man. 

2, Ezekiel Forman. 

3, Mary Earle Forman. 
5 Harriet Foi-man. 

6, Aramiuta Forman. 



WILL OF MAJ. EZEKIEL FORMAN.'^ 

Feb. 5, 1822— '-I, Ezekiel Forman, of Cloverfields in Queen Anne's Co., 
Md. ... If wife Henrietta Maria marries after my decease, I give unto her besides 
my household furniture, one third the income nett, (of real and personal estate)." 

" E. F. Chambers, my cousin and friend" . . . "Mr. Earle, father of my wife" 
. . . "my uncle William Henisley (to be) guardian of my child or children." 

The "Eastou Star." of April 22, 1823,-' has the following obituary: 

"Departed this life on Friday morning last in the bosom of his family at his 
seat, Cloverfields, Eastern Shore of Maryland, Maj. Ezekiel Forman, who is embalmed 
in the affectionate sorrows of his friends and all (who) knew him." 



•("Biographical Record of Eastern Shore," p. 467-832.) pub. 1898. 
^WillB Queen Aqd's Co., T. C. 1-227. 

'Letter of Adm. were taken by Ezekiel Forman Chambers, who on Oct. 21, 1823, gives the customary notice 
to creditors, etc. 



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EZEKIEL MARSH FORMAN.' 

98. Across the Chesapeake and exactly opposite Aiinaioolis stands Centre- 
ville, the county seat of Queen Anne's County, with a liistory tliat (sxtends back to 
a veiy early period. Among its families are some that for several successive genera- 
tions have been prominent in public affairs and liave taken an activ(! part in local 
history. To this class belonr's the i^irman family. P^zekiel Forman, a man of 
means (a nephew of Gen. Thomas Marsh Forman of Rose Hill, Cecil Co.,) spent his 
entire life on the P^astern Shore, bearing a shai'e in the development of its industries. 
He had a son, Ezekiel Thomas Marsli Forman, who was born in Chestortown, Kent 
Co.. in 1821, and was educated at Washington College. Removing to Queen Anne's 
Co., he engaged in farming, but after a time settled in Centreville as a merchant. 
For a time he served as a Justice of tlie Peace. He was an Episcopalian. His death 
occurred very suddenly June 27, 1875. Ezekiel Forman had also a son, William 
Hemsley Forman, father of the well known business men of Baltimore: Frederick 
W.. Richard, James Cranston, William H., and of Laura Forman, (Mrs. Grymes). 

Ezekiel Forman married H. Maria Tilghman, daughter of Peregrine Tilghman 
of "Recovery," Queen Anne's Co. She was motlier of four sons and two daughters 
viz: Peregrine, Henry, William, Ezekiel Marsh, Harriet and Araminta. 

Ezekiel Marsh Forman, Jr., was born in Centreville, Jan. 15, 1859; at the age 
of thirteen lie began to earn his own living. For eight years he was in the drug 
store of John Woofers of Centreville; then he bought an interest in the store of 
W. J. Hopper, remaining with him until 1888; since then he has been alone in busi- 
ness. He is an Episcopalian, and has been a vestryman since 1885. On the 28tli 
of April 1881, he married S. Catherine Earle (daughter of Judge Samuel T. Earle) 
and has three cliildren: Peregrine, Ezekiel and Mary Earle Forman. 



HON. EZEKIEL FORMAN CHAMBERS.- 

DO. Gen. Benjamin Chambers, one of Kent's most distinguished citizens, 
was born in Pennsylvania, October 6, 1749, the son of James and Sarah Lee Chambers. 
He married June 11, 1783, Elizabeth, daughter of Ezekiel and Augustina Forman, and 
a grand-daughter of Thomas Marsh. Fi'om Pennsylvania he removed to Chester- 
town, Md., where he resided until his death. During the war of 1812, he held a 
commission of Brigadier General, and was in command of the troops in that part of 
the state. The only civil office held by Gen. Chambers was that of clerk of the 
court of Kent Co. Gen. Chambers died Jan. 10, 1816, leaving the following children: 
Thomas Marsh, Ezekiel, James, David, Benjamin Lee, Elizabeth Caroline (who mar- 
ried Col. Joseph Wickes) and William Henry. Two other children, Benjamin and 
Margaretta, died before their father. 

The most distinguished of these children was Hon. Ezekiel Foi-man Chambcu-s. 
He was born in Chestertown, Kent Co., Feb. 28, 1788. Li 1809, he was admitted to 

ifiiographical Record of the Eastern Shore, p. 467. -Ibid, p. 6.51. 



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the bar, and soon acquired a great reputation as a lawyer. Dtiring tlie war of 181'.', 
he raised a volunteer company, of which he was captain; with his company he par- 
ticipated in the battle of Caulksfield, in the summer of 1814, and his bravery was 
especially mentioned in the official report of the battle. In 1826, the legislature of 
Maryland elected liim to the Senate to fill the term of Mr. Edward Lloyd, (who had 
resigned ; and he was re-elected in 1831. In 1834 being appointed judge of the 
Court of Appeals of Maryland, he resigned his seat in tlie Senate, lie held the 
office of judge of the Court of Appeals for seventeen years; his opinions are char- 
acterized by clearness of analysis and strength of argument. His intellect was 
vigorous, and his quickness of perception almost amounted to intuition. When he 
retired from the bench in 1851, he resumed thi; practice of law with the .same ability 
he displayed in early life. Judge Cliambtu-s was a member of the Episcopal church, 
and for more than thirty years was vestryman of the church in Chestertown. For 
many years he was president of tin; Board of Visitors of Washington College, (his 
alma mater). 

Judge Chambers married Feb. 11, 1817, Sarah J. Bowers, daughter of Maj. 
Jas. Bowers of Kent Co., and had seven children, three of whom survived him. He 
died Feb. 28, 1867. 

100. William Hemsley Forman, son of Maj. Ezekiel and Henrietta Maria 

Earle Forman. B d. 1868. (Admn. Record, Centreville, Q. A. Co., Md.) 

1848 ra. Marcia Ross Watts, d. 1884. (Admn. Record, -Centreville.) 

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1, Frederick Watts Forman, b. 1849, d. July 5, 1900, in Baltimore. Mem. 

of firm: Forman Bros. &, Co., South St., grain merchants, 
m. 1895 Octavia Whelan, dau. of Tlios. ^Vhelan. 

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Fi-ederick Watts Forman, b. 1896. 

2, Ezekiel Cliambprs Forman m. 

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William Hemsley Forman. 
Mary Earle Forman. 

3, Richard Carmichael Forman (unm. in 1900). 

4, James Cranston Forman m. 1st Emily Hodges. 

I 2d, 1899. Mrs. Clara Morgan. 

• 

Emily Hodges Forman. 

5, Wm. Hemsley Forman m. Mary Nicholas. 

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Hollins Forman, 

Wm. H. Forman, d. aged two years. 

Daughter b. 1900. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. \\\ 

6, Laura Gould Forman m. Arthur Johnson Grymes. 



Arthur Johnson Grymes, 

Oliver Smith Forman Grymes, ) rj. . 

Marcia Watts Forman Grymes, f ^ ^^"^'^• 

101. William Lee Forman, son of Ezekiel and Augustina Marsh Forman. 
m. Nov. 20, 1790, Jane Spear. Will prob. 1836. Register First Pres Ch 
Bait., p. 6. 



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'1, Sarah Emory Forman, b. May 17, 1792 m. John Steele Stiles, of Halt. 

2, Margaret Forman, b. June 9, 1793. 

3, William Spear Forman, b. Aug. 28, 1794. 

4, Sophia Forman, b. March 26, 1796; d. unmarried. Will prob. 1852. 

5, Eliza Forman, b. April 11, 1797, m. James Tabb. 

6, John Spear Forman, b. Jan. 4, 1799. 

7, Jane Hollins Forman, b. July 18, 1800. 

8, William Lee Forman, b. Jan. 21, 1802, d. 1825. 

Dej^arted tliis life, Oct. 4, 1804, Mr. Wm. L. Forman of this city, a gentleman 
whose amiable disposition and gentlemanly deportment secured him the attachment 
I and esteem of an extensive and respectable circle, who join their unfeigned sorrows 
' with those of his disconsolate widow and orphans to deplore his loss. 
j Tombs Remembrancer^ (pub. in Baltimore.) 

John Steel Stiles m. Sarah Emory Forman, dau. of Wm. Lee Forman. 

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1, George Stiles. 

2, Emory Forman Stiles. 

3, William Lee Stiles. 
m. 1st, Mrs. Craighill. 
m. 2d, Bettie White. 

4, Hester Tabb Stiles. 

5, Jane Spear Stiles, 
m. Edward S. Harrison, of Maryland. 

6, Sophia Jackson Stiles, 
m. William B. Clark, of Baltimore. 

James Tabb m. Eliza Forman, dau. of Wm. Lee Forman. 

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1, Jane Tabb. 

2, Thomas Tabb. 

3, Sarah Emory Tabb m. James K. Dabney of Gloucester Co., Va. 

4, Lucy Tabb m. George . 



1 Births from Reg. First Pres. Ch., Bait., p. 50, 51, 131. 



112 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

10*i. Gen. David Fovraan, (sou <>! Josepli and Elizabeth (Lee) Forman), b. 
Nov. 3, 1745, d. Sept. I'i, 1797. Will prob. at Chestertt.wn, Md., Oct. 26, 1797. 
m. Feb. 28, 1767, Ann, dau. of Thomas and Ann (Fiisby) Marsh. 



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1, Joseph P'orman, b. March 31, 1771, d. before his father. 

2, Sarah Marsli Forman. b. Feb. 1, 1773. ni. Major Wm. Gordon Forman, 

her 1st cousin, son of Joseph Forman of Shrewsbury, N. J. 

3, Elizabeth Lee Forman, b. De(-. 4, 1775, d. before her father. 

4, Ann Forman, 1). Jan. 14, 1779. m. Dr. Jonathan Longstreet. 

5, David Lee Formau, b. April 1, 1781, d. before Ids father. 

6, Augustine Forman. b. Jan. 5, 1784, d. April 6, 1784. 

7, Emma Forman, b. Oct. 12, 1785, d. 1853, m. Robert Cnmming <.f Ball. 

8, Eliza Forman, b. March 9, 1787, d. Oct. 14, 1796. 

9, Malvina Forman, b. July 30, 1788, d. at very advanced age in Fau- 

quier Co., Va. 

10. Kivine Forman, b. Dec. 30. 1791, d. 1816, m. James Neilson, son of 

Gen. John Neilson of New Hrunswi<-k. I 

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(">idy dau. m. Rev. George Gridin. 

11. Alfred Forman, b. May 9, 1793, d. June 29, 1793. 

Note: — The foregoing dates of birth, and the dates of death of the 6th, 8th 
and 11th children are from the family Bible of Gen. David Foi-man. The other in- 
formation is inainly from the article by Miss A. M. Woodhull in the Monmouth 
Democrat. 



GEN. DAVID FORMAN. 

Gen. David Forman was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, November 
3, 1745, (presumably according to the old style calendar). His fatlier was Joseph 
Forman, a succes.sful shipping merchant in the city of New York, who retired from 
business and settled on one of his farms in Monmouth Co., New Jei"sey. Josepli 
Forman married Elizabeth Lee, who was of Scotch extraction, and David was their 
fourth son. 

In June, 1776, David Forman went as colonel in Heard's brigade of militia, 
which was sent by New Jersey to re-enforce Washington's ai-my at New York. He 
seems to have attracted favorable notice, for, not only was he sent to suppress a 
loyalist rising in Monmouth, in Nov. 1776, but, congress having authorized the six- 
teen additional regiments (in Dec. 1776) Washington in the following month offered 
the command of one of them to David Forman. On March 5. 1777, he became 
Brigadier General in the New Jersey militia, and as such took part in the battle of 
Germantown. In consequence of a difference with the New Jersey assembly. Gen. 
Forman resigned his Brigadier General's commission iu November, 1777. The con- 
tinental command above mentioned, ''Forman's Regiment," was never completely 
organized, and, some time in the year 1778, was divided up among other commands. 




Kcnr..illU'i-d hv L\nuir~w .,1 Mr. |.111K-- \ril»,.ii. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 113 

Gen. Forman is said to have believed that he could be of more service in Monmouth 
than by remaining with the army. His services during the last two years and a 
half of the war in collecting information in regard to the position and movements 
of the ships of the enemy in and about the harbor of New York, were of great utility 
to Washington and highly commended by him, particularly during the Yorktown 
campaign. 

It may be noted that at the court martial of Gen. Charles Lee, Gen. Forman 
who had been directed to accompany that officer at the battle of Monmouth, appeared 
as a witness against Lee. Also in the spring of 1782, Gen. Forman took the leading 
part in laying the case of the hanging of Capt. Joshua Huddy before Wnsliington. 

The Tories charged Gen. Forman with cruelty, giving him the nickname of 
•^Devil David." Gov. William Livingston they called "the archfiend," so we may 
doubt the justice of the charge. The name "Black David" is sometimes said to have 
been applied to Gen. Forman, but we believe properly belongs to Sheriff David For- 
man, his first cousin, who was so designated to distinguish him from the General. 

Gen. Forman was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, member of the Cin- 
cinnati, vice president of the New Jersey branch of same from 1791 to 1793. 

In February 1794, he removed to Chestertown, Maryland, the native state of 
his wife. 

In Sept., 179G, he left Chestertown to attend to an estate which he owned 
near Natchez. There he had a stroke of apoplexy. Having recovered sufficiently 
to travel, the ship on which he took passage at New Orleans was captured on the 
on tlie voyage by a British privateer and conveyed to New Providence in the 
Bahamas. Anxiety and disappointment as to seeing his family, added to his en- 
feebled condition, brought about his death on Sept. 12, 1797. His wife was Ann 
Marsh whom he married Feb. 28, 1767. There were eleven children, of whom only 
five daughters grew up. Col. John Laurens (see his Army Correspondencey wfotein 
1778 in a very complimentary manner of Gen. Forman, and Mrs. Ricliard Stockton 
of "Morven," Princeton, wrote a poem on him, printed by Miss A. M. Woodhull in 
her article in the Monmouth Democrat, (1873.) 



WILL OF GEN. DAVID FORMAN.^ 

I, David Forman, of Chestertown in the County of Kent and State of Mary- 
land, Gentleman, in health of body and of sound mind, &c. . . . I bequeath 
unto my daughter Sarah Marsh Forman and to her heirs, &c., all my plate and 
Household furniture of all kinds, also my House servants . . . for ;ind in con- 
sideration of the tender care she has shown towards her mother, my beloved wife, 
and as to the rest and residue of my Estate real and personal, it is my will . . . 
that it be divided by my Executor and Executrix . . . into seven equal parts or 

shares; I also give unto my son-in-law William Gordon Forman, 

and my daughter, Sarah Marsh Forman, his wife, one seventh pai't of all my estate. 
... I give to my daughters Ann, Emma, Eliza, Malvina and Riviue, each one- 

iSee also Salter's "History of Monmouth Co." ^Wills, Chestertown, Kent Co., Md. 



114 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

seventh part of ray estate. ... To receive their portion at the ages of twenty 
one or when tliey shall marry. . . . Further, I also give to my sister Margaret 
Forman, widow of my brother Ezekiel Forman, the sum of one hundred pounds 
And I do make and appoint my son in-law, William Gordon Forman, and my 
daughter, Sarah Marsh Forman, Executor and Executrix. 

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal, this 30th day of August, 
1796. David Forman. 

Witnessed by 

Phil Reed, 
Wm. Burneston, 
Prob. Oct. 26, 1797. Ben Chambers. 



DESCENDANTS OF EZEKIEL FORMAN (1706-1746). SIXTH SON OF HIGH 
SHERIFF SAMUEL FOIIMAN, OF MONMOUTH CO.. N. J. 

103. Ezekiel, High Sheriff Samuel Forman's youngest child, is described 
in his will as of Upper Freehold. He is buried tliere at tlie First Baptist cliurch, 
(the old yellow meeting house) and his tombstone reads: 

Here lies the body of Ezekiel Forman, son of Samuel and Mary Forman, who 
departed this life the third day of October, A. D. 1 746, aged ;^9 years, 1 1 months 
and two days. 

His will which is at Trentttn (Liber D of Wills, pages 421, &c.) is dated Sept. 
30, 1746, provides for his wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, and 
also a child which might be born after his deatli. A son was born after his death, 
making seven children in all. The will appoints his wife Elizabeth, brother Jon- 
athan Forman, brother-in-law Daniel Seabrooke, and friend p]lisha Lawience, Esq., 
executrix and Executors, and is witnessed by James Tapscott. Geoige Danser, .John 
C. Chasey, and William Madock. It was probated Oct. 22, 1746. All the executors 
qualified except Elisha Lawrence. 

Ezekiel Forman, b. Nov. 1, 1706, d. Oct. 3, 1746, son of Samuel and Mary 
(Wilbur) Forman. 

m. Elizabeth Seabrooke. 



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1, Samuel Forman, b. (probably) Oct. 28, 1759. 
ra. Margaret Forman (a cousin). 

2, Thomas Forman, b. Dec. 18, 1740. 
m. Jane Throckmorton. 

3, (Dr.) Aaron Forman, b. Feb. 4, 1745-6. 
m. Anne Emley. 

5; Hannah Forman, I ^ates and order of births unknown. One of 

6, Elizabeth Forman, f ^^^^"^ ^^- Scudder. 

7, Ezekiel Forman, b. April 7, 1747. 
m. Catherine Wyckoff. 



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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 115 



The Formal! Family in Kentucky, Descendants 
of Thomas Forman. 



104. In the fall of 1789, Thomas Forman, the son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth 
(Seabrooke) Forman, removed from New Jersey with his family to what is now 
Mason Co., Kentncky. The house which he occupied, built of stone, stands but a 
short distance from the town of Washington. On a hill in sight of the house is a 
family burying ground, but many, perhaps most of the family, including Thomas 
and his wife, lie in the old Baptist cemetery in the town itself. Thomas Forman 
was a large landowner in Kentucky and a member of the legislature in 1797. 

Thomas Forman's sons, except John who removed to Lewis Co., lived in 
Mason Co., Ky. Ezekiel, the eldest, had six sons that grew to manhood. Thomas 
Seabrooke Forman, the eldest of these, removed to Louisville in 1839, and there 
lived until his death. Of his eldest son. Col. James Brown Forman, of Louisville, 
an account will later be given. Accounts will also be given of other members of 
this branch of the family. Of the six sons of Joseph Forman, Thomas' second son, 
we may note the third, George L. Forman, long the most prominent representative 
of the family in Mason Co. He was widely and favorably known, and was a member 
of the legislature in 1859-61, and in 1873-75. George L. Forman was a Union man 
during the Civil War and had two sons in the Union army, but his eldest son, Samuel 
Tebbs Forman, took the opposite side and Avas mortally wounded at the battle of 
Shiloh while Adjutant of the 4th Kentucky Regiment in the Confederate army. 
Samuel, Thomas Forman's youngest son, if we exclude one who died in boyhood, was 
six feet four inches tall and of a most robust constitution which served him in good 
stead in the fall and winter of 1814-15 when he served as an ensign (2d Lieutenant) 
in a Kentucky regiment at and near Fort Maiden, Canada, during the second war 
with England. Samuel's eldest son, General Thomas Morgan Forman, was a Brigadier 
General in the Kentucky militia and member of the legislature in 1839-40. 

NOTES. 

'"The first purvey within the bounds of Lewis Co., Ky., was made by Capt. 
Thos. Bullitt in what has been for seventy-five years known as ' Forman's Bottom.' 
. . . Before 1798 Thomas Forman made a clearing in front of this survey." 

^"Tlie first brick house in Mason Co., Ky., was built by Simon Kenton and was 
for many years owned by Thomas Wood Forman." (See paragraph 124.) 

" Dolly Wood, wife of Ezekiel Forman, was the second white child born in 
Mason County; she was born in 1786." 

Thomas Forman of Monmouth Co., was one of the commissioners for drafting 
men for the 2d regiment of New Jersey militia, August 14, 1778, presumably iden- 
tical with the above-named Thomas. 



'Collins Hist, of Kentucky, vol. ii, p. 465. -P. 566. 



116 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

105. Thomas Forman, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Seabrooke) Forman, 
born Dec. 18, 1740, d. about 1825, buried at old Bai)list cemetery, Washington, Ky. 

m. at Colts Neck, N. J., 1769, Jane Throckmorton, b. Jan. 22, 1750, d. 

Nov. 24, 1812, buried at Washington, Ky., dan. of Joseph and Mary (For- 
I man) Throckmorton; Alary Forman, the wife of Josej))! Tlirockmorton, was 
I dau. of Capt. John Forman brother of above named Ezekiel. 

1, Ezekiel Forman, b. in N. J., Sept. 9, 1770, d. April 20. 1836, buried at 
private burial ground near Washington, Ky. 

m. Dolly, dau. of George and Elizalieth (Whiteman) Wood, b. Dec. 14, 
1786, d. May 4, 1872. 

2, Mary Forman, b. Dec. 11, 1772. 

m. May 29, 1704, George Lewis, b. Dec. 25, 1763, d. 1800. 

3, Joseph Forman, b. Feb. 7. 1775, d. M(-h. 12, 1844. 

m. Mary, dau. William and Phoebe (Monteer) Dye, b. Mch. 12, 1777, 
d. Aug. 24, 1835. 

4, John Forman, b. Feb. 7, 1775. 

m. , 1 child, Samuel Ezekiel, d. num. John Forman removed 

from Mason Co. to Lewis Co., Ky. 

6, Samuel Forman, b. Aug. 20, 1778, d. Jan. 4, 1833. 

m. Margaret Smith, b. Oct. 5, 1783. 

7, Thomas Forman, b. Jan. 16, 1782, d. Apr. 15, 1794. 

lOG. Ezekiel Forman. son of Thomas and Jane (Throckmorton) Forman, b. 
in New Jersey, Sept. 9, 1770, d. Mason Co., Ky., Apr., 1836. 

m. Feb. 18. 1808, Dolly Wood, daughter of George and Elizabeth (White- 
man) AVood, b. Dec. 14, 1786, d. May 4, 1872. 



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1, Thomas Seabrooke Forman, b. Mason Co., Ky., Nov. 8, 1808, d, Louisville, 
Ky., June 24, 1849. 

m. Oct. 15, 1835, Mary Ann, dan. of James Brown. 

2, Elizabeth Forman, b. Dec. 25, 1809, d. Sept. 26, 1890. 

m. May 7, 1829. Robert Taylor. 

3, George Forman, b. July 17, 1811, d. Mason Co., Ky., Mch. 25, 1854. 
Resided at Louisville, Ky., and New Orleans. 

4, John Samuel Forman, b. Feb. 15. 1813, d. Mch. 1. 1879. 

m. March 10, 1838, Jane, dau. of Gov. John Chambers. 

5, Throckmorton Forman, b. Oct. 3, 1814, d. Aug. 25, 1834. 
6,- Jane Forman, b. July 25, 1816, d. Aug. 27, 1893. 

m. Sept. 29, 1836, Joseph Foi-man, son of Joseph and Mary Dye Forman. 

7, Mary Forman. b. Sept. 26. 1817, d. Jan. 9, 1903. 

m. Oct. 1, 1840. William McClung Paxton, son of James A. Paxton. 

8, Ezekiel Forman. b. June 20, 1819, d. Apr. 2, 1902. 
m. first, Anna S., dau. of Rev. Dr. Benj. H. Rice, 
m. second, Ellen, dau. of David Russel. 

m. third, Mary H. de Graffenried. 




L'OI.ON K I. J AM KS I{k< >\V \ KoK M AX . 
151I1 Kv, \'i»l. liilaiitrv, liiioii Army. 



r THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 117 

9, Charles William Forman, b. Mcli. 3, 1821, d. Aug. 27, 1894. 
m. first, Margaret Newton. 
m. second, Georgiana S. Lockhart. 

10, Whiteman Forman, b. May 13, 1822, d. Mch. 10, 1824. 

11, Ann Forman, b. March 2, 1824, d. July, 1900. 

m. Sept. 14, 1848, Dr. John W. Henry-only child Tillie Henry, m. An- 
drew Wood. 

12, Matilda Forman, b. Dec. 5, 1828, d. June 9, 1849. 

m. Mch. 10, 1847, William B. Huston, son of William Huston— only 
child Clara, m. Thos. C. Johnson. 

13, Whiteman W. Forman, b. June 1, 1832. 
m. first, Sept. 5, 1855, Helen Kelly. 

m. second, Nov. 11, 1891, Mary Park. 

107. Thomas Seabrooke Forman, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, 
b. Mason Co., Ky., Nov. 8, 1808, d. Louisville, June 24, 1849. 

m. Oct. 1835, Mary Ann, dau. of James Brown, b. Dec. 11, 1817, d. July 20, 1850. 

1, Sarah Pope Forman, b. April 2, 1837, d. August 11, 1900. 

m. November 22, 1855, William J. Anderson, d. Dec. 17, 1895— children. 

2, Ezekiel Seabrooke Forman, b. Feb. 25, 1839, d. April 8, 1867. 

3, James Brown Forman, b. Dec. 12, 1842, d. Dec. 31, 1862, was Colonel of 
15th Regt., Ky. Vol. Inf. Killed at battle of Stone's River or Murfrees- 
borough. 

4, George Forman, b. August 7, 1844, d. Nov. 1901. 

m. October 13, 1864, Hannah M. Bartley — only child: Emily Forman. 

5, Mary Ann Forman b. January 11, 1847, d. May 2, 1884. 

m. Feb. 2, 1864, William T. Hamilton— only child: P'orman Hamilton, 
who d. unmarried. 



COL. JAMES BROWN FORMAN. 

108. James Brown Forman, sou of Thomas Seabrooke and Mary Ann 
(Brown) Forman, was born in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 12, 1842. In the summer of 
1861 he entered the U. S. Volunteers as 1st Lieutenant of Company C, 15th Ken- 
tucky Volunteer Infantry. Upon the death of his superior officer he soon became 
captain. hX the battle of Perryville or Chaplin Hills, all the field officers of the 
15th Kentucky were killed and wounded, and Captain Forman although the junior 
captain was promoted to its colonelcy by Gov. Robinson for great gallantry. Major 
W. P. McDowell, of Louisville writes, (in a letter. May, 1896): "The gallantry at 
Perryville alluded to was Co. 'C being the 'color company' had charge of the regi- 
mental flag, which was in charge of nine non-commissioned officers. These nine 
men were killed while in charge of the colors, the flag staff was cut in two by 
bullets, and the colors went down. Capt. Forman rushed to them, and finding the 



118 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

staff too short to display them, iiiountcd a rail fence in front of the regiment and 
waved the flag therefrom, which must have iiisijiied any wavering heart to deeds of 
valor." In a message of Gov. J. B. Robinson of P"'ebruary 28, 1863, printed in the 
Franlcfort Tri- Weekly Commonwealth, of March 4, 1863, it is stated that in a hand 
to hand encounter, after tlu^ flag had been wrested from Captain Forman's grasp 
by overpowering numerical strength, " it was recaptured and securely held until the 
close of the dreadful conflict." The Governor says: "B(?fore going into his last 
battle he caused the old and tattered flag of the regiment, which had been presented 
to him as the reward of his personal prowess, to be conveyed to me. . . ." The 
Governor was reipiested by him to preserve it among the state archives. 

The following remarkable incident is related by Major W. P. McDowell. It 
should be stated that at the battle of Stone River (or Murfreesborough) Major Mc- 
Dowell was serving as chief of staff to Gen. Rousseau. Major McDowell writes: 
"Col. J. B. Forujan was my friend from early boyhood. We were engaged together 
in raising Co. 'C 15th Ky., I as captain and he as lieutenant, and were always fast 
friends. He had a very stylish black horse which I admired and tried to buy from 
him. As I was riding with him and the field officers of the 15th to place the regi- 
ment in line of battle at Stone River, lie remarked: 'Will, you have always wanted 
this horse; now it is my desire that after this battle you should have him. I will be 
killed in the fight, and I c^all on you gentlemen (acklressing his field officers) to see 
that he gets him." Major McDowell rallied him and said: " Jimmie, if you are 
going to be killed let me have him now and take ray hor.se," but he answered : " 1 
am in earnest: I know what I am talking about and I want you to remember. I 
will be killed, you will be wounded, and the horse will also be wounded, and I 
want Major Allen to see that the horse is cared for and given to you." All occurred 
as he said. He was killed and fell from his horse, the horse was wounded three 
times in the left hind leg, and Major McDowell was wounded in the left arm. 
While convalescent from his wound. Major McDowell was met in Louisville by Mr. 
William J. Anderson, Col. Forman's brother-in-law, who informed him that the horse 
was in a livery stable at his disposal. Major Allen having conveyed the request. 
Major McDowell writes that he kept the horse until his death. 

Col. Forman was killed about 9 a. m., Dec. 31, 1862. He was buried at Cave 
Hill cemetery, at Louisville, and by his side rests his brother, Lieutenant Ezekiel 
Seabrooke Forman, who was wounded at Perryville, but survived the war. Both were 
tall, handsome young men, James a little over six feet, Ezekiel nearly six feet tall. 

109. Elizabeth Forman, dau. of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, b. Dec. 
25, 1809, d. Sept. 26, 1890. 

m. May 7, 1829, Robert Taylor, b. March 4, 1806, d. Sept. 2. 1852, son of 
Robert Taylor. 



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1, Jane Taylor, d. 1887. 
m. Robert T. Taylor. 

2, Mary Taylor. 

m. Rev. Robert F. Caldwell, Sharpsburg, Ky. 



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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 119 

3, Sarah Taylor, res. Washington, Ky. 

4, Anna Taylor. 

m. Richard C. Durrett, d. 1890. Res. Mason Co., Ky. 

5, Robert Taylor res. Washington, Ky. 
m. Mary A. Wood. 

6, Ezekiel Taylor. 

ra. Amelia S. Metcalfe. 

7, Charles F. Taylor, 
m. Mattie S. Wood. 

8, George Taylor, res. Washington, Ky. 

9, Rev. Samuel F. Taylor, d. 1901. 

m. Elizabeth Newton Forman, dau. of Rev. Charles William Forman. 

110. John Samuel Forman, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, b. 
Feb. 15, 1818. d. in Louisville. March 1, 1879. 

m Jane, dau. of John Chambers (who was staff officer of General W. H. 

Harrison in War of 1812, later Governor of Iowa Territory), d. 

Aug. 18, 1853. 



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1, Hannah Chambers Forman. 

m. William Forman, son of Gen. Thos. Morgan Forman. See No. 139. 

2, Throckmorton Forman. 

m. Asenath, dau. of R. H. Stanton. 

3, Laura Forman. 

m. J. E. McCarthey. 

4, Lizzie Foi-man. 

m. Rev. J. H. Moore. 

5, Daisy Forman. 

m. Dr. Frank C. Wilson. 

111. Throckmorton Forman, son of John Samuel and Jane (Chambers) For- 
man, b. Mch. 27, 1843, m. May 1, 1866, Asenath Stanton, res. Fernbank, Ohio. 

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1, Richard Stanton Forman, b. Aug. 10, 1867. 

2, Samuel Chambers Forman, b. March 2, 1869. 

3, Maud Forman, b. June 16, 1870, d. Aug. 8, 1872. 

4, Asenath Stanton Forman. 

5, Christine L. Forman m. Dec. 11, 1894, Geo. Fred'k Eldridge of Boston. 

6, Jane Throckmorton Forman. 

7, William Anderson Forman. 

8, Ella Pierce Forman. 

9, Marie Lewis Forman. 



120 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

112. Laura Forman m. J. E. McCarthey, of Louisville, Ky. 

1, Mary Lee McCartliey, d. 1871. 

2, Laura Lyle McCarthey, d. 1877. 

3, Besisie Brent McCarthey m. Frank Blair Williams. 

4, Edwin Forman McCarthey. 

5, (Mara McCarthey. 

6, Frank Wilson McCarthey, d. 1882. 

7, Helen Wliiteman McCarthey. 

8, Ada Paschal McCarthey, d. 1891. 

113. Lizzie Forman m. Rev. J. U. Moore, she died 1887. 

Issue: 1, Harry; 2, Myra; 3, Marie; 4, Jane Chambers. They live at 
Kayser, W. Va. 

lU. Dr. Frank C. AVilson, of Louisville. Ky. 

m. Nov. 2, 187G, Daisy Forman, dau. of John Samuel and Jane (Chambers) 
Forman. 



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1, Margaret Preston Wilson. 

2, Samuel Forman Wilson. 

3, Laura Lyle Wilson. 

4, Mary Louise Wilson. 

5, Alice Throckmorton Wilson, d. 1885. 

6, Frank Caruthers Wilson. 

115. William McClung Paxton, son of James A. and Maria Marsliall Pax- 
ton, b. March 2, 1819, res. Platte City, Mo. 

m. Oct. 1, 1840, Mary Forman, dau. of Ezekiel and Dolly Wood Forman. 

1, Thomas Paxton, deceased. 

2, Anna Maria Paxton. 

3, Tillie F. Paxton. 

m. 1868, Algernon S. Tebbs. 



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1, Laura Gilbert Tebbs. 
m. 1893, C. Miller. 

2, Mary Paxton Tebbs. 

4, Marshall Paxton, deceased. 

5, Mary Paxton, deceased. 

6, Phoebe M. Paxton. 

Note: — ^Maria Marshall who married James A. Paxton was dau. of Alexander 
Keith Marshall, a younger brother of Chief Justice John Marshall. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 121 

REV. EZEKIEL FORMAN, A. M., D. D. 

116. The Rev. Dr. Ezekiel Formau, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, 
was bom near Washington, Ky., June 20, 1819. He graduated "at Centre College! 
Danville, Ky., in 1837; studied theology at the Princeton (N. J.) Theological Sem- 
inary, completing his course in 1841, and returned to Kentucky where he spent 
nearly all his life as pastor of churches in several counties of that state. From 1891 
to 1898 he was pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, La. 
In 1898 he returned to Kentucky, and died at Lexington April 2, 1902, and was 
buried at Richmond, Ky. He represented West Lexington Presbytery in General 
Assembly of 1846, and attended the General Assembly at Rochester, N. Y., in 1800, 
as a delegate from Transylvania Presbytery. He received the degree of A. M. from 
Centre College, and that of D. D. from Central University, Richmond, Ky, 
Rev. Ezekiel Forman, D. D., b. June 20, 1819, d. April 2, 1902. 

m. 1st, at Princeton, N. J., May 25, 1841, Anna Smith Rice, dan. of Rev. Dr. 

Benjamin Holt Rice, b. July 31, 1820, d. January 4, 1844. 
m. 2nd, Oct. 26, 1848, Ellen Russel, dau. of David Alston Russel and Ellen 

(Alsop) Russel, of Danville, Ky., d. Aug. 26, 1873. 
m. 3rd, Aug. 3, 1886, Mary H. de Graffenried, d. 1890; no children by third 
marriage. 
Only child by first marriage: 

1, Benjamin Rice Forman, b. May 1, 1842, m. Mary Elizabeth Mandelle. 
Children by second marriage : 

2, Jane Forman, b. Aug. 6, 1849, d. Dec. 28, 1875, m. George W. Williams 

— no children. 

3, Thomas Throckmorton Forman, b. Dec. 29, 1852, m. Lelia C. Donohoo. 

4, David Russel Forman, b. Sept. 7, 1856, m. Bettie Harmon West, d. August, 

1S94, daughter of James H. West (Confederate soldier). No children. 

5, Caroline Elizabeth Forman. 

6, Mary Forman. 

7, Michael George Youce Forman, m. Minnie Bell Sharp. 



THE RICE FAMILY. 

'"Thomas Rice, an Englishman of Welsh extraction, was an early adventurer 
in Virginia, and a settler in Hanover Co. Here he left his wife with nine sons and 
three daughters and went to England to receive a considerable estate wliich liad 
been left him, but returned no more. The sailors reported he had died at sea. It 
was supposed that he had been assassinated. No return was ever made of the 
property after which he had gone and his family were left destitute in a strange 
land." Thomas' grandson, Rev. David Rice (1733-1816), was tlie founder of the 
Presbyterian church in Kentucky, which has erected a monunu^nt to iiis memoi-y. 

'Memoir of Rev. David Rice. 



122 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Mrs. Rogt'i- A. Pryor, wife of Judge Pryor, of New York, is a great graiiddaTigliter of 
Rev. David Rice, and has kindly fuinished information in regard to the early history 
of her family. Rev. Benjamin Holt Rice, D. D., (1782-1856) nephew of Rev. David 
Rice, was a Presbyterian minister of distinction, founded the Presbyterian church 
at Petersburg. Virginia, was pastor in New York City, at Princeton, N. J., and else- 
where. He married Martha Alexander, sister of the eminent Rev. Dr. Archibald 
Alexander. Dr. Benjamin Holt Rice's daughter, Anna S., married Rev. Ezekiel 
Forman. Among other well known members of the family may be mentioned the 
Rev. John H. Rice and Rev. Nathan L. Rice, respectively the brother and cousin of 
Benjamin H. Rice. 



BENJAMIN RICE FORMAN. 

117. Benjamin Rice Forman, son of Rev. Ezekiel Forman. D. 1)., by his first 
marriage with Anna S. Rice, was born near Washington, Ky., May 1, 1842. He 
graduated at Centre College. Danville, Ky., in 1861, entered the Confederate Army 
and served under Gen. John H. Morgan. He came to New Orleans in 1860 and was 
admitted in that year to the bar, since which time he has been continuously engaged 
in the practice of his profession, and is well known as a lawyer of ability. He has 
also taken an active interest in public questions, to which he has devoted much 
study, and during Reconstruction days and many times since has labored earnestly, 
both by speaking and writing, for the Democratic cause. He took a prominent part 
in the convention which framed the State Constitution of 1879. 

Benjamin Rice Forman, b. May 1, 1842. 

m. Lexington. Ky., January 16, 1866, Mary Elizabeth Mandelle. step- 
daughtt'r of Daniel Edwin Mandelle of New OrUjans, and daughter of 
William W. and Frances Jane (Hockenhull) King, d. January 5, 1902. 

Children (all of whom were born in New Orleans): 

1, Charles Forman, b. Dec. 8, 1866. . 

2, Benjamin Rice Forman, Jr., b. Feb. 19, 1869. 

m. 1890. Lelia Douglas Harper, dau. of late William P. Harper, Captain 
7th La. Regt., Confederate Army, afterwards Civil Sheriff, New Or- 
leans. — 4 children: 1, Ethel Forman; 2, Benjamin Rice Forman, 3rd; 
3, William Harper Foi'man; 4, Lelia F'orman. Resides in Houston, 
Texas. 

3, Hilda Forman. 

m. 1897, Harry Penrose Lanphier of New Orleans, — child; Hilda Forman 
Lanphier. 

4, Ethel Forman. 

5, (Dr.) Alfred Hennen Forman. 

m. Jan. 31. 1903, Dot Preis, dau. of William H. Preis of New Orleans. 
Resides at Crowley, Louisiana. 

6, Anna Rice Forman. 




Rkv. Ciiaki.ks William Fokman. 

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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 123 

THOMAS THROCKMORTON FORMAN. 

118. Thomas Throckmorton Forraaii, sou of the Rev. Ezekie] Formau, D. D., 
by his second marriage with Ellen Russel, was born at Richmond, Ky., Dec. 29,' 
1852. He was educated at Kentucky University and at the University of Virgin'ia': 
was admitted to the bar in 1873, and practiced at Cynthiana, Ky., from May, 1874 
to Sept., 1890, having been attorney for the municipality, the Farmers National 
Bank, and local counsel of the Kentucky Central Railroad. Since 1890 he has re- 
sided at Lexington, Ky., of which city he is now one of the most prominent lawyers. 
His eldest son is associated with him in practice. He has been always much in- 
terested in church work, and has long been an elder of the Presbyterian church. 

Thomas Throckmorton Forman, b. Dec. 29, 1852, m. Oct. 11, 1876, Lelia 
Campbell Donohoo, of Bardstown, Ky. 

Children: 

1, Michael Donohoo Forman. 

2, Thomas Vernon Forman. 

3, Leila Forman. 

4, Howard H. Forman. 

Michael George Youce Forman, son of Rev. Dr. Ezekiel and Ellen (Russel) 
Forman, m. 1895, Minnie Bell Sharp, resides at Wilmington, Del. 
Children: 

1, Alonzo Russel Forman. 

2, Minnie Cushman Forman. 

3, George Shai'p Forman. 



REV. CHARLES WILLIAM FORMAN. 

111). The Rev. Charles William Forman was born near Washington, Ken- 
tucky, March 3, 1821, d. at Kasauli, India, Aug. 27, 1894. He was the son of 
Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman. He graduated at Centre College, Danville, Ky., 
in October, 1844; passing through the theological seminary at Princeton, N. J., he 
was ordained at Washington, Ky., in 1847. In August of that year he sailed from 
New York, landing at Calcutta, January 28,-1848. After spending a few months at 
Agra and Umballa, and nearly a year at Lodiana, he went to Lahore in 1849 on 
the annexation of the Punjab to British India. The work of the mission was largely 
educational and he gave much attention to the schools which he supcirintended. In 
1870 as many as 1600 pupils attended in the main and branch schools together, 
lliere was also a night school for adults. He also preached much, as well as wrote. 
Through the several generations who were educated in the schools he became widely 
known, and both English and natives held him in high esteem. The Civil and 
Military Gazette, Aug. 30, 1894, says: "He enjoyed in a very unusual degree the 
confidence of many leading members of the European community, by whoso liberality 



124 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

liis work was largely helped. Such men as Lord Lawrence, Sir Donald 
McLeod Sir Robert M..ntgomery, and Sir Charles Aitchison believed not 
only in' the work he was doing, but also believed in the laborious, unsellish 
and unassuming missionary, and gladly aided him by their sympathy and 
contributions. No man in anv walk of life could be more unceasingly diligent tlian 
he was in his. He had one aim in all that he did. He never seemed to think ot 
what men might say or think of him: warmhearted, genial and loving, he drew 
men to him, and it always was to do them good. Heyond all doubt the Punjab is 
the better for his having lived in it." "The success in life of his pupils was always 
a source of great pleasure to him, and his recommendations for securing employ- 
ments were always at the disposal of his pupils." {Lahore Tribune, Sept. 8, 1894). 
He took much interest in the establishment of a college which, after his death, was 
called "Forman College" in his honor, and a chapel in which he was accustomed to 
preach to English speaking native diristiaus was rebuilt and called -Forman 
Chapel." When he died in 1894 lu- had been at Laliore over forty years. He visited 
the United States in 1867, returning to Lahore in 1869, again in 1880. and lastly 
in 1892. Three of his sons are now missionaries in India. 

Rev. Charles William Forman. son of Ezekiel and Ddlly (Wood) Foniian, b. 

Mch. 3, 1821, d. Aug. 27, 1894. 

ra. 1st, July 3, 1855, Margaret, dau. of Rev. John Newton, d. 1878. 
m. 2d, Dec. 1882, Georgiaua S. Lockhart, of Scotland. 
Children of first marriage: 

1, Elizabeth Newton Forman. m. Rev. Samuel F. Taylor, d. 1901, ii.. .liildivn. 

2, Rev. Charles William Forman, missionary in India, 
m. Emily Falconer— children. 

3, Rev. Henry Foiinan, graduate Wooster University, Ohio, 1881, studied 
theology at Princeton Seminary, is a missionary in India. 

m. 1st, Alice Bird, d. January 20, 1896, no children. 
m. 2nd, Constance Sophie Newton. 

4, Francis Forman, m. Carrie Tucker— resides at Gatesville, Texas. 

s! Rev. John Newton Forman, graduate of College of New Jersey, (Prince- 
' ton), 1884, studied theology at Princeton Seminary, is a missionary in 

India. 

m. Margaret Foote— cliild, Florence Dorothcea Forman. 

6, Mary Paxton Foiman. 

7, Emily Forman. 
Children of second marriage: 

8, Fannie Sherriff Forman. 

9, Dorothy Margaret Forman. d. in infancy. 
10, Hugh Lockhart Forman. 



THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 125 

120. Charles William Forman, Jr. m. Emily Falconer. 

1, Charles Ian Forman. 

2, Douglas Newton Forman. 

3, Agnes McDonald Forman. 

4, Henry Janvier Forman. 

5, Kenneth William Forman. 

131- Whiteman W. Forman, son of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman, m. 
1st Helen Kelly, m. 2nd Mary Park. Resides at Paris, Bourbon Co., Ky. 

Children by first marriage: 1, Kate Bowman Forman m. Geo. Varden ; 2, 
Mollie Brent Forman m. Fleming Busby Crooke, and a son, S, Robert, wlio died young. 

122. Mary Forman, dau. of Thomas and Jane (Throckmorton) Forman m. 

May, 171)4, George Lewis. 

Issue: 1, Jane m. Wm. Greathouse; 2, Isaac m. Sarah Bell Brent; 3, Eliza- 
beth m. Wm. Mcllvaine. 

123. Isaac Lewis m. Sarah B. Brent. 

I ' 

1, Charles T. Lewis, b. 1830, of Dade City, Fla., m. Henrietta M. Gray and 

has seven children. 

2, George Lewis, b. 1832, d. about 1890. 

3, Forman Lewis, b. 1834. 

4, Mary Forman Lewis m. 1st Jackson; m. 2nd Col. Charles B. 

Alexander, who d. 1885. She lived at HopkinsviUe, Ky. 

5, A daughter who died. 

124. Joseph Forman, son of Thomas and Jane (Throckmorton) Forman, b. 

Feb. 7, 1775, d. March 12, 1844. i, tit t io itt^ 

m Mary Dye, dau. of William and Phoebe Monteer Dye, b. March 12, 1 < h, 
d. Aug. 24, 1835. 

l' Thomas Wood Forman, b. Dec. -, 1798, d. June 6, 1871, m. Elizabeth 
Gower Tebbs— no issue. 

2, Phoebe Forman, b. June 3, 1797, m. James Brodenck-issjie : Jos. Foiman 
Broderick of Palmyra, Mo., whose dau. m. Rev. J. K. Hitner. 

3, Jane Forman, b. Sept. 14, 1801, m. John McDonald. 
4 William Forman, b. Deo. 10, 1804, m. Phoebe Glenn. 
5' Harriet Forman, b. Oct. 21, 1807, m. Edward S. Perrie 
6 George Lewis Forman, b. Feb. 25, 1810, d. July 14, 1886, m. Feb. 20, 1834, 

Alice Ann Tebbs, d. March 2, 1854. c f oq is^fi Tnne 

7, Joseph Forman, b. Feb. 4, 1812, d. Sept. 3, 1888, m. Sept. 29, 1836, Jane, 

dau. of Ezekiel Forman. 
8 Charles Forman, b. Feb. 2, 1814, m. Mary Pickett. 
9', Samuel Forman, b. Dec. 9, 1817, m. Anna Soward. 



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126 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

125. Jane Formaii m. John McDonald. 

I ' 

1, William McDonald m. Sallie B., dau. of Gen. Thos. Morgan Forraan. 

2, PluK'bo McDonald ni. Robt. Hnnt — issue: 4 cluldren. 

3, Miiiy McDonald m. Thos. M. Morton — both died leaving no descendants. 

12(). William Forman m. Phoebe Glenn. 

I ' 

1, Mary Forman, b. Sept. 7, 1831, d. Aug. 19, 1881, m. Aug. 16, 1853, John 

Beverley Herndon', b. 1830, d. 1894. Children: 1, Edward Forman 
Herndon m. Nettie Grover; 2, Phoebe Forman Plei-ndon m. Calvert 
Arthur. Both res. Shannon, Ky. 

2, Elizabeth Forraan m. Robert Morris Marshall, son of Martin Pickett 

Marshall, who m. Eliza Colston Marshall. 

3, Phoebe J. Forman. 

127. Martin P. Mai-shall was son of Charles Marshall, b. 1767, who m. Lucy 
Pickett. Eliza C. Marshall was daughter of Thos. Marshall, b. 1761, who m. Frances 
Kennan. Charles and Thos. Marshall were brothers of Chief Justice John Marshall, 
whose father and brothers removed from Virginia to Mason Co., Ky. (The Mar- 
shall Family by W. M. Paxton.) 

128. Elizabeth Forman m. Robt. M. Marshall. 

Issue: 1, Elizabeth F.; 2, Martin P.; 3, Charles; 4, Logan M.; 5, Robt. M.; 
6, Louis; 7, John. 

121). Harriet Forman m. Edward S. Perrie. 

Issue: 1, Frank m. Ann Eliza Humphreys; 2, Joseph F. m. Mrs. Myra Chan- 
cellor, daughter of Dr. Basil Duke — no issue; 3, Charles F. m. Mrs. Nannie Estep — 
issue : 1 child; 4, Mary m. J. C. Humphreys ; both now dead. 

1 ;>(). George Lewis Forman, son of Joseph and Mary (Dye) Forman, b. Feb.^ 
25, 1810. d. July 14. 1886. (Member of Kentucky legislature, 1859-61 and 1873-75). 
m. Feb. 20, 1834, Alice Ann Tebbs, dau. Judge Samuel Tebbs. 



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1, Samuel Tebbs Forman, b. 1834, d. 1862, 1st Lieut, and Adjutant 4th Ky. 
(Confederate) mortally wounded at Shiloh. 

2, Joseph Throckmorton Forman, b. 1837, d. 1878, officer in Ky. (Union) 
cavalry, m. Elizabeth T. Forman — only child, Phoebe Hickman Forman. 

3, Phoebe Forman. m. John G. Hickman — only cliild, Samuel Hickman. 

4, Sarah Forman. 



'For Herndon Genealogy, Bee Va. Hist. Mag., Januarj-, 1902. 




LiKLT. SAMI KI. 'I'KliltS I'OKMAN. 
Adjt. 4th Ky. Kc^;!.. I onfedcrulc Army. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 127 

5, Thomas Forman (in Union army during Civil War), d. May, 1900. 

m. Margaret, dau. of Sprigg Chambers, and granddaught(!i- of Gov. JoJin 
Chambers— Cliildren: 1, Alice Tebbs Forman, m. Atholstan Owens; 
2, Martha Phillips Forman, m. James Barboui', Ji-. 

6, Edward Perrie Forman. 

7, Charles William Forman, d. Aug. 6, 1899, m. 1st Amelia Stevenson, d. 
Feb. 21, 1895— no children, m. 2nd, Mary Lee Wood— om; cliild, Chas. 
Wm. Forman. 



SAMUEL TEBBS FORMAN. 

131. Samuel Tebbs Forman, the eldest son of Hon. George L. Forman, of 
Mason Co., Ky., and Alice Ann, daughter of Judge Samuel Tebbs, was born Dec. 
28, 1834. Although his father was a Union man and two of his brothers were in 
the Union army, he joined the Confederate army and was 1st Lieutenant of Com- 
pany I, Fourth Kentucky Regiment. His story is best told by the following docu- 
ments : 

Head Quarters: 4tli Division, 
Camp on field of battle. 
Dear Sir : " 8tli April, 1862. 

Your son is a prisoner and wounded. Among so many thousands of wounded 
I failed to find him though I have searched diligently. Gen. Grant had ordered 
him to be delivered into my hands; I enclose the order endorsed to you. Come and 
get him before he goes to one of the prisons north, or it will be hard to get him out 
afterwards. He is now at Savanna on the other side of the Tennessee River, 10 
miles from here. 

My Division covered itself with glory in the battle of yesterday. 

Yours truly, 
Geo. L. Forman, Esqr., ■ W. Nelson, 

Washington, Mason Co., Ky. Brig. Genl. 

Head Quarters, Dist. of West Tenn., 
Pittsburg, April 8th, 1862. 
Guards will deliver over to Brig. Gen. Wm. Nelson Saml. F. {sic) Forman, a 
prisoner now in our possession. By command Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant. 

W. R. Rowley, Aid De Camp. 

[Endorsement:] 

The guards of whatever post having in charge the prisoner referred to on the 
other side of this paper will deliver him to the bearer of this oi'der wlio is the fatlier 
of the young man, and a true and loyal citizen of my native county in Kentucky. 
Camp on the field of battle, W. Nelson, Brig. General. 

8th April, 1862, 
Pittsbiu'g Landing, Tenn. 



128 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

G. L. Foi-mau. Salem, Ills., April 22, '62. 

Sir: 
From a dying request of your sou, S. T. ForiiKin, Adjutant 4tli Kentucky 
Regiment, that I should write and inform you of his sad fate, [I would say] he was 
wounded on Sunday through the thigh, breaking the bone in two places. If his 
leg had been amputated in time he migiit have been saved. He lay out in the rain 
Sunday night and was never brought in until Tuesday. He was so much prostrated 
tliat all the stimulants and care failed to bring on reaction. He died Tuesday night 
and was buried the morning following. H(i gave to Lieut. Ellis belonging to Gen- 
eral Nelson's staff three hundred dollai-s and his pistol, which you can obtain by 
making application to the general or the lieutenant. No doubt you have heard of 
his death ere this. As the Third Kentucky Union Regiment fought against the 
Fourth Kentucky Confederate Regiment, General Crusoe of Kentucky called to 
see the Adjutant the evening before he died. I have nothing further to relate, but 
should be pleased to hear of your receiving these few lines. 

Yours truly, 
W. Hill, Surgeon 48th Reg. 111. Volunteers, Retired. 

Another letter from Dr. Hill, dated April 29, 1862, furnislu^s some additional 
details, giving information as to the situation of Lieut. Forman's grave. Dr. Hill 
writes : " If you go up to Pittsburg Landing be sure to call on Lieut. Calvin Sand- 
ford of the -ISth Reg. Ills. Vol., as he with the balance of us became very much 
attached to him during his suffering which he bore like a hero. ... I do, Mr. 
Forman, sympathize witli you, though a stranger." Notwithstanding the kind 
doctor's in formation the grave could not be identified. 

1 %'l. Joseph Forman, son of Joseph and Mary (Dye) Forman, b. 1812, d. 1888. 

m. 1836 Jane. dau. of Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman. 
Children : 

1, Mary Forman (resides at Washington, Ky.) 

2, Elizabeth Taylor Forman m. Joseph Throckmorton Forman, d. 1878, son 

of Hon. Geo. L. Forman. 

3, George T. Forman, d. in infancy. 

4, Thomas Seabrooke Forman m. Maiy E. Davenport — no children. Resides 

at Midway, Ky. 

5, William Forman (of Platte City, Mo.), attorney at law. 

6, Charles Forman. d. young. 

7, Alice Whiteman Forman. 

8, Joseph G. Forman, d. St. Louis, Mo., June 2, 1899 

133. Charles Forman, son of Joseph and Mary (Dye) Forman, b. Feb., 1814, 
d. near St. Louis, Mo., 1850, m. Mary R., daughter of Colonel John and Elizabeth 
(Chamberlain) Pickett. 

Children: 1, Bettie Forman; 2, Cornelia Forman; 3, John P. Forman m. 
twice, s. p. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 129 

134. Samuel Forman, son of Joseph and Mary (Dye) Forman, b. Dec, 1817. 
111. Anna, dan. of Colonel Alfred and Elizabeth (Chiles) Soward. 

Children : 

1, Alfred S. Forman. 

2, Fannie Forman m. Dr. Reed of Maysville, Ky. 

3, HaiTiet Forman. 

135. Samuel Forman, son of Thomas and Jane (Throckmorton) Forman, b. 
Aug. 10, 1778. 

m. Margaret Smith, sister of Commodore William Smith, U. S. Navy. 

h 

1, Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman, member of Ky. legislature, 183940, and 
Brigadier General in Ky. militia. 

m. Mary, dau. of Judge Samuel Tebbs — 12 children. 

2, William Forman, removed to Missouri from Kentucky. 

m. Agnes Yancey of Mason Co., Ky. — Children: 1, Harlow Forman; 2, 
Thomas Forman; 3, Mary Forman. 

136. Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman, son of Samuel and Margaret (Smith) 
Forman. 

m. Mary Tebbs, dau. of Judge Samuel Tebbs. 



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1, Margaret Forman. 

m. James M. Mitchell of Mason Co., Ky. 

2, Samuel Forman. Removed to western part of Illinois, 
m. 1861, Elizabeth Carrington. 

3, Joseph Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky. 

4, William Forman, died 

m. Hannah C. dau. of John Samuel Forman. 

5, Sallie Baxter Forman. 

m. first, William McDonald of St. Louis, Mo., son of John and Jane 

(Forman) McDonald — no children, 
m. second, John C. Humphreys of Mason Co., Ky., d. 1895— no children. 

6, George Forman, res. Casper, Wyoming. 

7, Ezekiel Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky. 
m. Hannah Matthews. 

8, Mary Ann Forman. 

m. Hugh Warder of Mason Co., Ky. 

9, Thomas Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky. 
m. Emma Perkins — no childi-en. 

10, Walker Reid Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky. 
m. Dora Berry. 

11, Lizzie Alice Forman. 

m. Isaac C. Clay of Lexington, Ky. 

12, Harriet Perrie Forman. 

m. James E. Claybrooke of Mason Co., Ky. 



130 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

137. Margaret Forman, daugliter of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman. 

HI. James M. Mitchell of Mason Co., Ky. 
Children : 

1, Mary Bell Mitchell, d. , m. John Finch. 

L', IJettie Mitchell m. Andei"son Finch of Mason Co., Ky., d. . 

8, Aaron Mitchell, ) r> ai ^ j 
, T 1- nfi 1 11 }■ Both dead. 
4, Lydia Mitchell, j 

l;i8. Samuel Forman, son of Gen. Tliomas Morgan Forman. 

m. Elizabeth Carrington. 
Children : 1, Thomas Forman : 2, Mary Forman. 

l;>9. William Forman, son of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman, d. . 

m. Feb. 6, 1862, Hannah Chambers Forman. dan. of Joliii Samuel and 
Jane (Cliambers) Forman. 
Children: 

1, John Throckmorton Forman, b. Nov. 22, 1862, m. July, 1889, Julia Ethel 

Potts. Resides at Kansas City, Mo. 

2, George L. Forman. b. July 25, 1864. Resides at Louisville, Ky. 

3, Mary Baxter Forman m. Jan. 15, 1890, Rev. Josepli A. Vance, pastor <>f 

Presbyterian Church, Chicago. Chihl: Dorothy Vance. 

4, Laura Lyle Forman m. Oct. 26, 1899, Wm. Walter Maxwell of Baltimore. 

5, William Whitenian Forman, d. aged 3 years, 

1 40. Ezekiel Forman, son of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman, res. Mason Co., Ky. 
m. Hannah Matthews. 

Cliildren: 1. Walter Forman; 2, Henry Forman; 3, Hugh Forman. 

141. Mary Ann Forman, daughter of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman. 
m. Hugh Wai-der. 

Cliildren : 1, Maria Warder m. Sandford Goff of Mason Co., Ky.; 2, Maiy M. 
Warder. 

142. Walker Reid Forman, son of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman. 
m. Dora Berry. 

Cliildren: 1, Hattie Gaines Forman ; 2, Lena Warder Forman. 

143. Lizzie Alice Forman, daughter of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman. 
m. Isaac C. Clay. 

Children : 1, Mary Clay m. Gerritt H. Albers of Grand Rapids, Mich.; 2, 
Sadie Clay m. J. W. AVaterfill of Lawreuceburg, Ky.; 3, Scott Clay. 

144. Harriet Perrie Forman, daughter of Gen. Thomas Morgan Forman. 
m. James E. Claybrooke of Mason Co., Ky. 

Child : Mary Baxter Claybrooke. 




Willi \m Kouman. 

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THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 131 

DR. AARON FORMAN OF HUNTERDON CO., N. J. 

145. Dr. Aaron Porman, son of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Seabrooke) Foi-man, 
b. Feb. 4, i745(or 1746, new style, see his uncle Jonathan's will), d. January 11, 1805. 
m. Apr. 19, 1769, Ann Emley, daughter of John and Sarah (Lawrence) Emlev 
I b. Dec. 12, 1742, d. Dec. 13, 1794. 

n 

1, Ezekiel Forman, b. June 10, 1770, d. Apr. 22, 1809. 

2, John Emley Forman, b. May 15, 1772, d. Aug. 10, 1867. 

m. at Belvidere, N. J., Sept. 12, 1804, Sidney Paul Rakestraw, b. Jan. 13, 
1777, d. Apr. 1, 1814. 

3, Edward Taylor Forman, b. Dec. 12, 1774, d. unmarried. 

4, Robert Emley Forman, b. Feb. 28, 1778, d. Feb. 6, 1817. 
m. June 26, 1802, Martha Bevan Rakestraw. 

5, Mary Aune Forman, b. July 11, 1780, d. Apr. 14, 1848, unmarried. 

6, Elizabeth Forman, b. April 19, 1784, d. Aug. 11, 1793. 

7, Elisha Laurence Forman, b. May 30, 1787, d. Dec. 29, 1859, unmarried. 



DR. AARON FORMAN AND HIS SONS. 

Dr. Aaron Forman (1745-1805) removed from Monmouth Co. to Hunterdon 
Co., N. J., in 1766. He was a physician, a warm advocate of inoculation for small- 
pox, and introduced it extensively in his own neighborhood. He was undoubtedly 
a Tory and probably suffered much loss of property in consequence. He was an 
Episcopalian; his wife, Ann Emley, was a Quaker. Dr. Aaron Forman was of small 
statui'e, polished and courtly and carefully dressed, and when aroused, very irascible. 
When his wife died he had a large slab erected to her memory in the Friends' buiy- 
ing ground where no monuments were allowed, and though twice notified to remove 
it, he ignored the order. The elders of the meeting then waited upon him and in- 
formed him that if he did not remove the slab, they would. He replied, " I will 
shoot the first man who dares touch it," and it stands to this day. Hence the state- 
ment in the sketch of his life in the N. J. Medical Society Records that he erected 
a "monument" to his wife's memory, which sounds strange to the uninitiated. 

A portrait of Dr. Aaron Forman's eldest son, Ezekiel, is in the possession of 
Mrs. John Moses of Trenton, New Jersey. 

John Emley Forman, second son of Dr. Aaron Forman, lived to be very old— 
a just, upright, elegant old gentleman, a widower for over fifty yeai's, of consider- 
able fortune, and a power in his own community, a sort of gentleman farmer. He 
called himself a Quaker. He and his brother Robert married the two Rakestraw 
sisters, beautiful women, and heiresses, and very accomplished. A liandsome por- 
trait of John Emley Forman exists. 

Robert Emley Forman, fourth son, was a merchant and was ruined by the 
sudden lifting of the embargo after the war of 1812, having bought heavily at high 
prices. It broke his heart and he died a discouraged man. 



132 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Elisha Formau, Dr. Aaron Fornian's fifth and youngest son, was an early 
convert to Metliodism. He was a small devout, artistic old gentleman, loving beau- 
tiful cluuches with his artistic sense, but attending the rigorously plain Methodist 
service because he believed it right. He was named for his great grandfather 
Elisha Laurence. 

14:(>. John Emley Forman, son of Dr. Aaron and Ann Emley Forman, 1). 
May 15, 177l', d. Aug. 10, 1867. 

m. Sept. 12, 1804, at Belvidere, N. J., Sidney Paul Rakestraw, b. Jan. 13, 
1777, d. April 1, 1814. 



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1, McEvers Forman, b. Aug. 25, 1805, d. Jan. 11, 1885. 

m. Anne Hager — children: 1. John E. Forman, d. young; 2, Laurence H. 
Forman, d. in early manhond: 3, Mary Sidney Forman. 

2, Caroline Forman, b. Nov. 23, 1806, d. unmarried . 

3, Hamilton Forman, b. Oct. 27, 1808, d. May 4, 1879. 
m. Mary Van Syckel. 

4, Anna Forman, b. April 14, 1810, d, Jan. 17, 1890. 
m. James Cooley — no children. 

5, Kli^ibeth Paul Forman, b. March 11, 1812, d. April 8, 1891. 

m. Augustus Godley (liis second wife) —left large family of children. 

6, Thomas Paul Forman. b. March 11, 1812, residence Milford, N. J. 
m. 1st Maiy Opdyke, b. 1818. d. 1860. 



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1, John E. Forman. 

2, James C. Forman. 

3, Catherine O. Forman. 

4, Mary O. Forman. 
m. 2nd Annie Smith. 



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5, Smith Forman. 

6, Paul Forman. 

7, Harvey Forman. 

147. Robert Emley Forman, son of Dr. Aaron and Ann (Emley) Forman, 
b. Feb. 28, 1778, d. Feb. 6, 1817. 

m. June 26, 1802, Martha ("Patty'') Bevan Rakestraw. 



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1, Mary Ann Formau, d. unmarried at an advanced age. 

2, Susan Elizabeth Forman, d. young. 

8, Mortimer Paul Forman, b d. 1874. 

m. 1835, Sarah Stratton Gardner. 
4, Sidney Paul Forman, d. unmarried at an advanced age. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 133 

5, Duillins Forman. 

m. first, Mary Anna Barber, 

m. second, Mrs. Margaret (Duckworth) Van Syckel, (widow), left one 
son, Wm. Duckworth Forman. 

148. Mortimer Paul Forman, son of Robert Emley and Martha Bevan 

(Rakestraw) Forman, d. 1874. 

m. 1835, Sarah Stratton Gardner. 

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1, Emma Augusta Forman, d. in early childhood. 

2, Robert Henry Forman. 
m. Emmeline J. Bray. 

3, Olivia Gardner Forman, b. Nov. 23, 1839. 

m. John Moses, d. January 20, 1902. (See following sketch). 

4, Martha Elizabeth Forman, deceased. 

m. Wm. G. Moore — left one son, with no children. 

5, Jacob Gardner Forman. 

m. Elizabeth Morton^one son, Morton G. Forman. 

6, Mary Anna Forman, d. in infancy. 

7, Edward Duillins Forman, d. in early manhood. 



JOHN MOSES. 



John Moses, who married Olivia Gardner Forman, as has been stated above, 
was born in Belfast, Ireland. He came first to Philadelphia and afterwards to 
Trenton, New Jersey, of whicli city he became one of tlie leading manufacturers. 
He established at Trenton one of the first large potteries of that city, and was for a 
number of years president of the Potters' National Association. He was active in 
other manufacturing enterprises, was president of the Trenton Watch Company, at 
one time president of the Mechanics N^ational Bank, and was one of the founders 
and the first president of the Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit Co. Mr. Moses was a 
considerate and kind employer, a good and useful citizen, and most exemplary and 
estimable in all the relations of life. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. 
He died January 20, 1902, at the age of 70, leaving several sons who wortliily fill 
their father's place. 

1-19. Ezekiel Forman, fourth son of Ezel^iel and Elizabeth (Seabrooke) 
Forman, b. April 7, 1747 (a posthumous son), d. Dec. 15, 1828. Perhaps he was the 
Loyalist refei-red to in '''Old Times in Old Monmouth,''^ page 38. 

m. Feb. 7, 1771, Catherine, dan. of William and Agnes Wyckoff of Mon- 
_J mouth Co., N. J., b. May 11, 1740, d. Sept. 12, 1818. 

1, Elizabeth Forman, b. Dec. 23, 1771, d. April 11, 1848. 

m. John Anderson Scudder, M. D., son of Hon. Nathaniel Scudder, M. D., 
b. March 22, 1759, grad. Princeton 1773, Member of Legislature 1801- 
1807, Member of Congress 1810. Removed to Mason Co., Ky., then to 
Washington, Davis Co., Indiana. Eight children. \ 



134 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

2, Agnes Forman, b. Dec. 10, 1772, d. young. 
8, Jolin Wyckoft" Forman, b. Feb. 22, 1774. 

4, William Wyckoff Forman, b. July 10, 1775, d. March 16, 1849. 

5, Catherine Wyckoff Forman, b. 1777, d. May 13, 1855. 
m. Fenwick Lyell. b. 1766, d. Dec. 20, 1822. 

6, Agnes Forman, b. July 26, 1779. 
m. John J. Post. 

7, Jacob Forman, b. Nov. 20, 1783, d. June 16, 1841. 

8, Sarah Forman, b. April 2, 1785, d. Dec. 20, 1849. 
m. Henry Green. 

9, Eleanor Forman, b. June 20, 1787. 
m. William S. Brooks. 

10, Anna Forman, b. Oct. 19, 1788. 
m. George Jones. 

11, Mary Forman, b. Jan. 15, 1791, d. March 24, 1851. 

JVotk: — The foregoing list was kindly furnished by Miss Anna Matilda Wood- 
hull of Freehold, N. J., who stated that it is from the Wyckoff Family Kecord. In 
1839 Capt. Wm. [Wyckoff] Forman was living at Middletown Point. He had been 
captain of a merchant vessel, and had ne\er married. His sister, Mrs. Jones, was 
then a widow li\ing at New Brunswick. These facts are derived from MS. account 
of a visit to New Jersey by Rev. Kzekiel Forman of Kentucky, while a student at 
Princeton Seminary. Capt. Wm. Forman at an earlier date had visited his Ken- 
tucky I'elatives. 



OTHER DESCENDANTS OF. ROBERT FORMAN OF LONG ISLAND. 

150. Aaron Forman, Jr., son of Aaron, and grandson of Robert, married 
Susannah Townsend. They had sons: Aaron jd, Isaac and. Jacob. Jacob Forman removed 
from Oyster Bay to Westchester Co., N. Y., abt)ut 1726-7. He had sons: John and 
James. James was a loyalist and removed after the Revolution to Fredricton, New 
Brunswick. A son of James, whose name is not given, had the following sons: 
George Forman, w^ho founded the town of Forman, Lake Co., Michigan, and died in 
1889 at Stratford, Canada; Col. C. H. Forman^ who founded the town of Forman, 
North Dakota, where he was living in 1890; xv^xA Jacob Forman, who died leaving a 
widow, Mrs. Emily Shaw Forman, and an only sou, Herbert Shaw Forman, both of 
Cambridge, Mass. 

John Forman, the brother of James, removed about 1798 from Westchester 
Co., to Tioga Co., N. Y., and had a son Miles. Miles Forman had sons: Sfttifk 
Forman (who had sons). Sands Forman., Miles Forman., Jr. and Ferris Forman. 

Ferris Forman was born in Tioga Co., N. Y. He left Tioga at an early age 
and settled in Vandalia, Ills., was appointed district attorney by President Van 
Bui'en; was a colonel in the Mexican War; removed to Sacramento, California, when 
gold was discovered in California; became secretary of state of California; then re- 



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turned to Illinois. In 1892 he was living at Stockton, Cal. with liis daughter Mrs. 
Anna Forman Peters, and was then in his 86th year. He had also a son,°Sands W. 
Forman of San Francisco. 

Sands Forman, brother of Col. Ferris Forman, had sons: Charles Forman, 
of Los Angeles, Cal., and Edward Forman of Chicago, Illinois. 

The foregoing information is due to Mr. Wm. Henry Forman of New York City. 



Other Families Whose Connection With the Foregoing Has Not 

Been Traced. 



JUDGE JOSHUA FORMAN. 

151. The ancestry of this distinguished man has been certainly traced, it 
would seem, no fiu'ther than his father, ^Joseph Forman, who was born probably in 
New Jersey, according to the statement of Hon. Elias W. Leavenworth in the 
Leavemuorth Genealogy., on July 27, 1752. Mr. Leavenworth believed him to have 
been related to General David Forman, and Miss or Mrs. Ellen E. Dickinson who 
wrote the article on Judge Joshua Forman in the Magazine of American History, 
Vol. 8, held the same belief. However, a definite statement of what the supposed 
relationship was, is not furnished by either writer. The material for the present 
sketch has been obtained from both accounts. 

Joseph Forman, the father of Joshua, was a merchant in New York city at 
the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. He then retired to Pleasant Valley, 
Dutchess Co., where his eldest son Joshua was born, Sept. 6, 1777. Near the close 
of the eighteenth century he removed to Troy, N. Y., where he was a membei- of the 
firm of Forman &, Tracy, and was a deacon in the Presbyterian church. He 
removed to Onondaga Hollow after his distinguished son Joshua had gone there, 
and there he is buried. 

Joshua Forman, as has been just stated, was born in 1777 in Pleasant Valley, 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. He was educated at Union College at Schenectady, N. Y., 
where he graduated with honor, and studied law at Poughkeepsie and New York city. 
Soon after completing his professional studies he married Margaret Alexander. She 
was the daughter of Boyd Alexander, M. P., for Glasgow, and was on a visit to this 
country at the time. Their meeting is said to have been undej- romantic circum- 
stances — but the particulars are not given by the narrator. 

In 1800 Joshua Forman removed from New York City to the promising village 
of Onondaga Valley, then called Onondaga Hollow, and his father and brothers 
and sisters also removed thither. A law partnership was formed with William H. 
Sabine, his brother in law, in 1803. The business prospered, and the firm became 
widely known in the state. On the organization of the Court of Common Pleas in 

'Joseph may have been, so far as the dates go, a son of Jonathan Forman, Jr. Soo paragraph 52. 



136 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

1818, Joshua Kormau was appointed judge, and served ten years in that capacity. 
Having been elected to the state assembly in 1807, he became impressed with the im- 
portance of constructing a canal to connect Lake Erie with the sea, and introduced 
the resolution looking to the construction of the Erie canal, directing a survey to be 
made of the most eligible and direct route. The measure was long looked upon as 
visionary, but, as all know, was eventually carried out to the great benefit of the 
state and city of New York. In November, 1825, when the canal had at last been 
completed, and Governor Clinton and liis suite were making their first passage 
through the canal, Judge Forman was selected to make the address to the governor 
at Syracuse, and the governor in his speech made reference to Judge Foiinans con- 
nection with the inception of the great work. As a member of the committee from 
Syracuse, Judge Forman also attended the ceremonies of mingling tlie waters of Lake 
Erie with the ocean at Sandy Hook. 

In 1 81 '.» Judge Forman founded the city of Syracuse. Tiiere were previous 
to his coming but two frame houses on the site. He removed there and was the 
means of its becoming a growing and prosperous city. Tliere is in Syracuse a small 
park called "Forman Park" in honor of the founder, and a monument has been 
erected to his memory in the same city. 

In 1820 he removed to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he was interested 
in a copper mine. Shortly after his removal to New Jersey, the banking laws of 
New York were seen to be defective, and on Gov. Van Buren's invitation Judge For- 
man presented to the legislative committee of New York a jilan which he had formed 
and at the governor's request drew up the " Safety Fund Banking At^t," which most 
successfully accomplished the objects for which it was designed. During the Civil 
War period the United States govennnent employed the idea of this act in establish- 
ing the national banks. 

In 1830 he removed to Ruthei-fordton. North Carolina, where he had pur- 
chased an extensive tract of land — some 300,000 acres — and there passed the re- 
mainder of his life. He established tliere a newspaper, a printing press, and a stage 
line, and was the leading citizen of that part of the state. His first wife having 
died in New Jei-sey, he married Miss Sarah Gari'ett of Warm Springs, Tenn. In 
1831 \w visited Syracuse, and was j)resented by the citizens with a silver pitcher 
and goblets, suitably inscribed. He visited Syracuse again in 1846, and a public 
dinner was given in his honor. A few years after this visit he died at Rutherfordton, 
and was buried at Syracuse in the Oakwood cemetery. 

Judge Josliua Forman was an eloquent speaker, an able lawyer, and a most 
useful and public sjjlrited citizen. Of a social and happy disposition, well informed, 
and possessed of the ability to impart his knowledge to others, he had, as Mr. J. V. 
H. Clark (the writer of Clark's Onondaga) justly remarks, a mind of no ordinary cast. 

Mr. Clark's book has been freely drawn upon by Mr. Leavenworth, and also 
by Mr. G. S. Strong — {Early Landmarks of Syracuse, pub. 1894). 

Joseph Forman, b. July 27, 1752, d. Jan. 15, 1824. 
m. 1st Hannah Ward, 
m. 2d Anna Thompson — no children by second marriage. 



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THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 137 

Children by first marriage : 

1, (Judge) Joshua Forman, b. 1777, d. 1848. 

m. Margaret, dau. of Boyd Alexander, M. P. for Glasgow— six children, 
among them two sons : Boyd Alexander Forman who died, leaving a 
daughter, and Joseph Forman who had a son, Josliua, b. 1855. 

2, Elizabeth Forman m. J. D. Bissell. 

3, Marj Forman m. Dr. G. Needham— no children. 

4, Sally Forman m. W. H. Sabine. 

5, John Forman m. Eliza Sisson (issue extinct in male line.) 

6, Samuel Forman m. Sophia Hooker — children : 1, Eugene Forman ; 2, Wm. 

P. Forman (father and sons, lawyers). 

7, Nancy Forman ) t . 

8, Caroline Forman | ^^'^^ y*^^"^^- 

9, Ann Forman m. James Lyon — seven children. 

10, Daniel W. Forman m. Elizabeth Bliss — children. 

11, Owen Forman, married, but line apparently extinct. 

The foregoing is derived from the Leavenworth Genealogy, pub. 1873. 

152. The Lists of Emigrants compiled by John Camden Hotten under 
the heading: Dead in Virginia since April last, Feb. 16, 1623, has: "At west and 
Sherlow hundred. — Samuel Foreman, tfec." 

The Pension Office Recoeds show an Aaron Forman, born in Frederic Co., 
Virginia, 1755. In the fall of 1776 he went to Hagerstown, Maryland, and enlisted 
under Captain Andrew Hines and Colonel Schryhawk, commanding Maryland 
troops; was at Fort Lee when Fort Washington on the Hudson was captured by the 
British, etc. He spent in all twenty-one months in the service, the latter part of 
which was on the Western frontier. He settled in Virginia after the Revolution, 
afterwards removed to Pennsylvania where he resided until 1805, then went to Ross 
Co., Ohio, where he lived about twenty years, then removed to Delaware Co., Ohio. 
Application for pension is dated July, 1834. 

Stephen W. Foeman of Martinsburg, Va., was in 1809 a member of the Union 
Philosophical Society of Dicldnson College, Carlisle, Pa. (Register of tlie mem- 
bers, 1843). 

The Ancestry of Hon. William S. Foeman, former Member of Congress from 
Illinois, has (writes Mr. William Henry Forman) been traced to his great-grand- 
father, William Forman, wlio, about the close of the Revolution removed from one 
of the Eastern states to Bourbon Co., Kentucky, near Middletown on a creek called 
Stoiier. He died there about 1810 or earlier. He had seven sons and three daugh- 
ters. Among the sons were Aaron, Joseph and John. Hon. William S. Forman has 
a son, Charles W., who is a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. 

Another descendant of the William just mentioned was tlie Rev. Aaron 
Parker Forman, D. D., an eminent Presbyterian minister, born in Ralls Co., Missouri, 



138 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

1827, d. Cortland, ALi., 1875. He was a graduate of Centre College, Ky., and 
studied theology al the Princeton Seminary, lie had a son, William, and a grand- 
son, John W. Formau of Canton, Missouri. Mr. John W. Forman wrote: "Many 
of the name went from Kentucky to Missouri from about 1820 to 1830 and settled 
in Marion and Riills counties and their descendants are scattered all over N. E. 
Missoiu'i." 

153. The following information was furnished by Hon. William Samuel 
Forman of Springville, St. Clair Co., Ala., in 1895. He has not traced his ancestry 
further than his great grandfather. Samuel Forman. 

Samuel Forman, of Halifax Co. North Carolina. 

m. Ward. 



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1, Lydia Forman, b. I7r)(). 

2, James Forman, b. I7ti8. 

3, Sarah Forman. b. 1770. 

4, Henjamin Forman. b. 1771. 

5, \\ illiaiu Forman, b. 1773. 
m. Elizabeth Owens. 

6, Mary Forman, b. 1778. 

7, Eliza Forman, b. 1785. 

William Forman, son of Samuel and Ward Forman, b. 1773, removed to 

Chester District, South Carolina, when a young man: sei-ved as a private in War of 
1812. 

m.. Elizabeth Owens. 
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1, Dr. John O. Forman, b. 1800; removed about 1834 to Mississippi, 
m. in S. C. 

2, David Forman, b. 1808. 
m. first, Martha Strange. 

m. second, Sarah Ann Phillips. 

3, James Forman, b. 1810. 
m. Parthena Dean. 

4, Betsey Forman. b. 1812. 
m. James S. Turner. 

5, Ada Forman, b. 1814. 
m. J. K. Strange. 

6, Polly Formau, b. 1816. 
m. Robert George. 

All the foregoing, except the eldest son, removed to St. Clair Co., Alabama. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 139 

David Forman, son of William and Elizabeth Owens Fornian, b. 1808. 
m. first, Martha Strange. 

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1, Betsey Forman. 
m. James Venable, removed to Texas. 

2, Mary Forman, 
m. O. H. P. Venable, of St. Clair Co., Ala. 

3, William C. Forman, (Confederate soldier, severely wounded at Resaca, 
Georgia), resides in St. Clair Co., Ala. 
m. Margaret Hawkins. 

4, Daniel Forman, (Confederate soldier, killed at battle of Rockyface moun- 
tain, Georgia). 

5, Charlotte Forman. 
m. A. D. Mize. 

Ap^jC^ -£a«iel Forman, son of William and Elizabeth Owens Forman, b. 1808. 
m. second, Sarah Ann Phillips. 



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6, Emma E'ormau. 

m. Louis Mize, St. Clair Co., Ala. 

7, John P. Forman. 
m. C. Steed. 

8, Benson Forman, died aged 16. 

9, Wiley Forman, res. Branchville, St. Clair Co., Ala. 

James Forman, son of William and Elizabeth Owens Forman, b. 1810, re- 
moved to St. Clair Co., Ala., about 1834, member of legislature 1853-54 and 1862-63, 
d. Mch. 1879. 

m. Partheua Dean. 



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1, Isidora Forman, b. 1849. 

m. 1871, Dr. James M. McLaughlin, of St. Clair Co., Ala., who served 
throughout the Civil War, was Lieut. Col. commanding regt. at close. 
One child: Katie Burt McLaughlin. 

2, William Samuel Forman, b. 1851, member of legislature 1890 to 1895, 
inclusive. 

m. 1873, Ella E. Wood — children: Bettie, James R., Nellie, Wm. S. 

3, Elizabeth Ward Forman. 

m. fii-st, 1874, James P. Herring, d. 1878— child: James L. Herring, b. 

1876. 
m. second, 1880, J. O. Turner, Superintendent of Education of Alabama. 

4, James Leonidas Forman. 

m. Laura B. Osborn— children: Grady D., Madison W., Maggie M. 

5, Gustavus Beauregard Forman. 

m. Burneta Green— child: Ormon. 



140 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

Children of the daughters of William and Elizabeth Owens Fornian. 

Betsy Formau, b. 1812, m. James S. Turner, ch., 2 sons, 5 dan., both sons 
Confederate soldiei-s under Lee, severely wounded in Virginia. 

Ada Formau, b. 1814, m. J. R. Strange, ch., 3 sons, 5 dau., eldest son, James 
Strange, severely wounded in seven days' battle around Richmond, rrijjpled for life. 

i*olly Forman, b. 1816, m. Robert George, ch., 8 sons, 5 dan.: sons \\illiam 
and James, Confederate soldiers; James George was color bearer of 10th Ala., killed 
in one of the great battles in Virginia, of most distinguished bravery. 

154. 'In 1739, Jacobus Springsteen deeded a plot of ground (on which to 
l)uil(l a school, south of Newton) to his loving friends, Gabriel Furinan, Nowell Fur- 
n^an, Ezekiel Furman and Joseph Fui'man. 

■-"Whig voters in Newtown, A^jril 3, 1775 — I^zekiel Furman, Gabriel Furman, 
Howard Furman, Jonathan Furman, William Furnum." 

■'•• Slavery did not cease in this state till July 4, 1827, though emancipation 
began soon after the Revolution. Others (of the slaves) preferred to remain with 
their masters. • I shall never forget ' says Judge Furman, 'tlu^ quaint remarks of 
two aged slaves when my grandfather went to the kitchen and informed them that 
they were now free and at liberty to go where they pleased. The poor old woman 
began to shed tears, while old Simon, who sat quietly smoking his pipe began, 'why 
Dinah, what you crying about? Old Massa won't turn us out doors, will you, old 
Massa?' '\Vliy Simon, you are now as free as I am, but if you both wish to continue 
with me, this shall be a home for you.' On which Simon, laughing and displaying 
his ivory, replied: Well, old iMassa, you have had de Hour, I guess you nnist hab 
de bran too.'" 

*" James Way bought the estate of Judge Furman near Newtown; in 1815 it 
was bought by Garret Furman." 

'"Purchasers of Midelburg from the Indians, 1656. . . Joiui Farnian, Lo. 2. 6. " 

^•' Charter of Newtown granted to John Furman. 

Josias Furman," 
(<fec., <fec.) 

'Samuel Furman, Quaker, bound over in the sum of 20£ and bidden to "go 
home about his occasions and not to disturb the people." (No date given.) 

^"Trustee of Newtown, Aug. 26, 1720. . . . Josias Furman." 

'"Member of committee of correspondence, Dec. 29, 1774, William Furman." 

'""August 10, 1776, Robert Furman, 2d lieutenant in Northbi;at Co. of New- 
town, soon after 1st lieutenant." 

"•• William Furman at the Head of the Fly, beaten and robbed 1780; executor 
of estate of William Coe." 

''^" Abm. Furman married Judith Way." 

""Thomas Furman married Pliebe Howard." 

Note. — Whether the foregoing items, or any of them refer to the Forman 
familv is uncertain. 



'Extracts from "Annals of Newtown, Queen's Co., New York, p. 159. ^P. 180. 'P. 261. ^P. 378. =^P. 43. 
«P. 110. -p. 94. *P. 152. 'P. 176. '»P. 184. "P. 202. '^P. 380. "P. 401. 










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Index of Surnames other than Forman. 



Paragraph 

Aby __._ 91 

Aguew 81 

Albers .143 

Aldeu 12 

Alexauder -__ 116, 123 151 

Allen 45, 68 

Audersou 60 107 

Anthony . 7 

Armstrong ]6, 60 

Bacon 61 

Baird _ .._ 67 

Banbury 35 

Barber 66, 147 

Barbour 130 

Bartholomew 62 

Bartley 107 

Bastable 16 

Batchelor 87 

Bayne 13 

Beck 9 

Becker 64 

Beckwith 66 

Bedle 73 

Bennett 43 

Berry ...142 

Binuey 9 

Bird 119 

Birdsall 44 

Bissell 151 

Bleecker 54 

Bliss ..151 

Booth 10 

Bourke 95 

Bowers 99 

Bradford 48 

Bray 148 

Brent 123 

Broderick 124 

Brooke 95 

Brooks 149 

Brown 9, 107 

Browne 95 

Brownell 50 

Bryan 95 



Paragraph 

Buckelew ' '64 

Burr _ 81 

Burrowes 53^ 72 

Butcher 19 

Cadmus _. 59 

Caldwell 1Q9 

Callaway 64 

Callender 95 

Carmichael ... 62 

Carrington 138 

Caulk 29 

Chaddock ._ \ 

Chamberlain 61, 73, 133 

Cherry 60 

Chesebrough 13 

Chiles. ..134 

Clarke 101 

Clay 143 

Claybrooke _. 144 

Clayton 60, 68 

Coalter 95 

Cockrall 3 

Coffin 13 

Coleman 89 

Cooley 146 

Cooper .- 5 

Coukling . 54 

Coup 64 

Cox 4 

Craig 75 

CraighiU - 101 

Crane 28 

Crooke 121 

Crooker 43 

Cumraing - 102 

Dabney 101 

Damer (or Karmor) 35 

Darroch 69 

Davenport - 132 

Davis 61 

Davison. 12 

Day 60 

Dean "-- - 153 

Decherd - - 8 



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Paragraph 

So. 

Denise 53, 71, 76 

Dey - 60 

Disinukcs - 10 

Dix - 37 

Dockory - 35, 87 

Douohoo - -- — 118 

Dorsey — -- 84 

Diickwortli -- 147 

Dunbar 90 

Dupoiit - --- 10 

Dye-- - 60, 124 

Eagle 8 

Earle --.- 97 

Edwards 60 

Elbert -- 8 

Eldridge Ill 

Ely --- -- 67 

Eiiiich 29 

Eniley 145 

Fairoiiild..- -- 54 

Falconer - 120 

Faiiniug- 1 

Farris - - 8 

Ferriday -- -- 92 

Fillmore 65 

Finch--- -137 

Filzgeral.l 10 

Fitz Randolph .- -. 73 

Fobes - 66 

Foote 119 

Ford.-.- 54 

Foster 5, 40 

Fowler 28 

Freneau 55 

Frisby 62, 102 

Gaasbeck, van 56 

Gale -- --- 79 

Gardner- 148 

Gaston - -- 61 

George -- 153 

Glenn 126 

Godley 146 

Goff - 141 

Gray ---.123 

Greathouse 122 

Green ....54, 62, 149, 153 

Gregory - 43 

Griffin 102 

Grymes .100 

Hager - 146 



ParaKraph 

Hall 8 

Hallani 40 

Hamilton 107 

Hammell 55 

Hamner 16 

Hankinson - 58 

Hanna — 10 

Harper .117 

Hawkins 153 

Hemsley 96 

Henderson 73 

Hendrickson 1, 58, 60 

Henry 106 

Herudou 126 

Herring - 153 

Hickman 130 

Hituer 124 

Hockenhull ...117 

Hodges 100 

Holden 85 

Holmes 90 

Hooker 151 

Hotchkiss 61 

Howard. 13, 62 

Howell 81,83 

Hoyt 44 

Humphreys 136 

Hunt 125 

Hurd 61 

Hurlbert 61 

Huston 106 

Hyatt 60 

Iraniel 9 

Jackson .123 

Jefferies 92 

Johnson 64, 59, 61, 63, 106 

Johnston 8 

Jones 12, 20, 149 

Karmor (or Damer) 35 

Karr 59 

Kearny - 53 

Kelly 121 

Kelsey 65 

Kennan — 127 

Kenney 69 

Kent 5 

Kerchner — 8 

King 117 

Laird . . ..- ^-- — 61 

Lake - 91 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 



143 



Paragraph 

No. 

Liiiiipson 64 

Lang 46 

Lanphier 117 

Lawrence _. I45 

Leailbeater 55 

Ledyard 53_ 54 

Lee 78 

Lewis 122 

Liucklaeu 54 

Lloyd 71 

Lockhart 119 

Lock wood 8 

Longstreet 102 

Love 61 

Lyell 149 

Lyou 151 

JIadock 50 

.Magee 60 

Mallow.. 15 

Maiidelle 117 

Marsh. 93, 102 

>rarsliall 115, 127 

Matthews 140 

Maxwell 139 

:\[eredith 8 

Merrill 64 

Metcalfe 92, 109 

Miller 8, 18, 54,115 

Minor 73 

Mitchell 137 

Mize 153 

Mouteer - 124 

Montgomery — 44 

Moore - 113, 148 

Morgan 100 

Morrisett 11 

:\[orton 125, 148 

Closes -148 

Mount 60 

McCaleb 92 

McCarthey 112 

McCarty --- -- 56 

McCumber 61 

McDaniel 35 

McDougall 64 

McGee 73 

Mcllvaine... 122 

MacKay -. -- 95 

McKee - 62 

McKeel - 18 



Paratrraph 
No. 

McLaughlin 153 

Neodhaiu . _. igj 

Neilson 93^ 102 

Newton _ 119 

Nicholas iqq 

Nonis 5 

Northcut _._ __ 84 

Nugent 90 

Oakinan 54 

Ogle 95 

Opdyke 146 

Osborn 153 

Owens 130, 153 

Park... ...121 

Parks... 62 

Patterson 86 

Pax ton ..115 

Peck 65 

Perriue 60, 67 

Phillips 59, 153 

Phijwry 9 

Pickett 127, 133 

Pope 10 

Porter 48 

Post 149 

Potts 139 

Powell 12 

Preis 117 

Quiiuby 5 

Rakestraw 146, 147 

Randolph, (see Fitz Randolph) 

Rasin 97 

Raynioud 7 

Reed 2, 50, 68, 85, 134 

Regau --- 92 

Remsen 71 

Rensselaer, van. 56 

Reynolds - - 5 

Rhea 52 

Rice 116 

Roberts -- 9 

Rodgers - 8 

Rogers '1 

Roniine 50 

Rose 72 

Rue 60, 67 

Russel - - 116 

Sabine - - 151 

Sanders — - - - ^9 

Screven --- - - "5 



144 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 



Paragraph 
No. 

Scudder 70, 103. 149 

Seabrooke .- - 103 

Sellers -- 23 

Seymour -. 54 

Shaler 72 

Sharp 118 

Slionnard 54 

Sissou 151 

Skiuuer - 5 

Smith 4. 60, 66, 91, 92, 93, 135, 146 

Soward — 134 



Dpear . 



.^ 101 

Speuser 64 

Stanton -- Ill 

Steed - --- 153 

Stevenson . 130 

Stiles - 101 

Strange - 153 

Stroud ..- 84 

Sutton -- 7 

Sweatuara 3, 35 

Sweet 35 

Tabb ....101 

Tappau 54 

Taylor. 52, 70, 109 

Tebbs 115, 130, 136 

Thomas 7, 61 

Thompson 93, 151 

Throckmorton 71, 105 

Tilghman 96, 97 

Torrey -' 88 

Tower 9 

Townsend 44, 46 

Troup 95 

Tucker 119 

Tufts 61 

Turner 153 

Vance 139 

Van Bibber 93 

Van Brunt- 52 



Parai^raph 
No. 

Van CMeaf (or Van Kleif) 50 

Vaudenbergh 61 

Van Doreu 67 

Van Doru 52 

Van Gaasbeck (see "G") 

Van Mater 67 

Van Rensselaer (see "R") 

Vanskoic 6() 

Van Syckel 146, 147 

Van Wyck 90 

Vardeu . 121 

Veuable 153 

Vickars 16 

Voorhees 61 

Ward 151, 153 

Warder 141 

Waitrfill 143 

Watts 100 

Way 66 

Weckes . 43 

Wellraan 64 

West 60, 86, 116 

Wheaton 61 

Whelan 100 

Whiteman 106 

Whitney - 86 

Wickes 100 

Wilbur 48 

Williams 28, 112, 116 

Williamson 57 

Wilson 5,114 

Wood 106, 109, 130, 153 

Woodford 61 

Woodhull 79 

Worrell 35 

Wright 46 

Wroth 5 

WyckofE 52, 76, 149 

Yancy ....135 

Young 62 




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THE FORM AN GENEAL OG V. 145 



APPENDIX A. 



FURTHER INFORMATION RELATING TO THE BOOTH FAMILY, RE- 
CEIVED TOO LATE FOR INSERTION IN ITS PROPER PLACE. 

On August 28, 1746, there was granted to George Booth a tract of land contain- 
ing 1440 or 1140 acres in Surry County, Virginia^ Sussex County was formed in 
1752 from Surry County. An entry^ in the Parish Register of Albemarle, wliicli 
embraced Sussex, records the death of Geoi-ge Booth, aged 84, August 14, 17G3. 
This shows that he was born in 1679. He lived in Surry County before it was cut 
off from Sussex. 

WILL OF GEORGE BOOTH. 

IN the Name of God Amen March the 16th 1763 I George Booth Senior of the 
County of Sussex Being in Low Estate of body but of sound & Perfect memory 
Thanks be to God for the same do make and ordain this to be my Last will and 
Testament in manner and form following, towit, I give my soul to God that gave it ; 
Trusting in the merits & mercies of my LORD Jesus Christ for the Remission of all 
my Sins & my Body to be Buried in a Christian and Decent manner according to 
Discretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned ; and Touching Such Worldly Goods 
as it has been Pleased God to Bestow upon me I Dispose and Bequeath the same as 
follows. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson George Booth (son of George Booth) 
all that part of my Land in Sussex County Lying on the south side of Sappony 
Creek & Southwest side of Stony Creek, Likewise one hundred acres of Land on the 
north side of Sappony Creek be it more or less Bounded as follows (towit) Running 
as the Middle Fence to some Markt Trees to a Pond, Thence down slough to a 
couple of markt Trees and Thence Turning off as the Court Road goes to a branch 
called the Ready Branch Thence Down the sd. Branch to Stoney Creek to him and 
his heirs forever. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson George Parham (son of John Parham) 
all the remaining part of my Land in Sussex County Situate & being in fork of 
Sappony and Stoney Creek and containing two hundred and Seventy Acres to him 
and to his heirs forever. Likewise Forty Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson John Parham Forty Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Thos. Parham Forty Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Matthew Parham Forty Pounds in 
money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaughter Anne Heath Forty Pounds in 
money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Daughter Mary Parham one hiuidrcd Pounds 



'Book 2i, page 410, Land Office, Richmond, Va. 

'Found by President Lyon G. Tyler of William and Mary College. 



146 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

in money likewise the Lent of one negro Girl called Annaca During her natural life 
and after her Decease the sd. negro to return she and her Increase to my Grand- 
daugliter Anne Heatli to her and licr heirs forevei-. 

Item. I give and Devise to niy Grandson Kciibin Bootli Forty Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Tliomas Booth Forty Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Gilliam Booth Forty Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson John Booth Forty Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaughter Mary Booth Forty Pounds In 
money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Daughter Ann Malone one hundred pounds in 
money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaugliter Lucy Jones one negro Girl 
called Hannah also forty pounds in money to her and to lier heirs forever. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson George Malone Forty Pounds in 
money Likewise three young cattle. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Reubin Mah)ne Forty Pounds in 
money. 

Item. I givt? and Devise to my Granddaughter Winifred Robertson Forty 
Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson Bootli Malone P'orty Pounds in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Granddaughter Wihnotli Malone Forty Pounds 
in money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Grandson William Malone Forty Pounds in 
money. 

Item. I give and Devise to my Friend Lucy Hill Forty Pounds in Gold or 
silver coin, a piece of Double Irish Linen — a Saddle and Bridle wch she usually 
Rides with, and Twenty yds of check linen. 

Item. I Give and Devise to my Grandson George Booth above mentioned all 
my Estate not that above mentioned But of what nature kind or quality soever to 
him <fe to his heirs or assigns forever. I do hereby api)oint my Grandson George 
Booth my whole and sole Executor to fulfill this my Last will and Testament hereby 
revoking and disannulling all former wills made by me and my desire is that my 
Estate be neither Inventoried nor appraised ; in AVitness wliereof have hereunto set 
my hand and seal the day and year above written. r • R H 

Signed sealed Published and 
Pronounced By the sd George 
Booth to be his Last will and 
Testament in Presence of us 
Test. Amos Love 
John Malone 
Frederick Smith. 

At a Court held for Sussex County the 15th Day of September 1763. The 
Last Will and Testament of George Booth deed was presented into court by George 
Booth the Executor therein named who made oath thereto according to Law and the 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 



147 

same was proved by the oaths of Amos Love John Malone & Frederick Smitli three 
of the witnesses thereto and by the court ordered to be Recordt.l and on the motioii 
of the said Executor certificate is granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in 
due form. 

'l^««te 
ACopy-Teste: A Claiborne Clk 

-L. r. Hargrave, Clerk. 

TABLE OF DESCENT. 

George Booth, born 1679, received grant of land in Suiry C,.., \'a., 174G will 
prob. 1763 in Sussex Co. (formed from Surry), 
m. 



fJ 



George Booth, 
m. 

Gilliam Booth (mentioned in his grandfather's will), 
m. Martha Cryer. 



r" 



William Booth. 

m. Mary Ann Fitzgerald. 



? 



Mary Ann Booth, 
m. Arthtr Fokman. 



APPENDIX B. 

THE WYCKOFF FAMILY. 

Pieter Chiessen Wyckoff (or Wykoft"), born in the Netherlands, was a citizen of 
Flatlands, Long Island. He emigrated to America in 1636. He superintended the 
bowery and cattle of Director Stuyvesant. He purchased land in Flatbush where 
he settled. He was magistrate of Flatlands in 1655, 1662 and 1663, and one of the 
patentees in the town charter in 1667; was one of the representatives sent to a pro- 
vincial convention held at Windwout to appoint a delegate to go to Holland to lay 
before the States General and the West India Company the state of the country. 
He was a member of the Flatlands Dutch Church in 1677. (xVuthorities: Bergen's 
Kings Co. Settlers and Genealogy, and O'Callaghan's New Nethei'lands Register.) 
Pieter C. Wyckoff married Margaret Van Ness. 

Cornelius Wyckoff, son of Fietei', was born in Holland, died about 1695, married 
Gertrude Van Arsdaleu, daughter of Simon Van Arsdalen, on Oct. 13, 1678. He 
resided on and owned a farm in "Oatmond," or New Lots, Long Island, of 195 acres, 
which with other lauds he bought in March, 1678. He also purchased 1200 acres 
in Middlebush, Somerset Co., N. J. Simon Van Arsdalen, the fath(M--in-la\v of Cor. 



148 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

nelius Wyckoff, came from Holland in 1653 and settled in Flatlands, where he was 
magistrate in 1060, 1661 and 1662; was a member of a provincial convention held 
July 6, 1663, to engage several Duldi towns to keej) an arnu^d r.iicc for public \no- 
tection. He died after 1698. 

Cornelius WyckolF's daughter, Margaret, married (Judge) Jonathan Forman, 
the second son of High Sheriff Samuel Forman of Monmouth Co., N. J. (See para- 
graph 52.) 

Note. — The foregoing facts concerning the AVyckoff family are lioni int'ornia- 
tion furnished by Mrs. J. E. Noel of Tacoma, Washington, who is descended from 
Judge Jonathan Forman. As has been stated iji paragraph 55, Philip Freneau, 
"The Poet of the Revolution," married Eleanor Forman, daughter of Samuel and 
granddaughter of Judge Jonatlian Forman. Agnes Watson Freneau, second daugli- 
ter of Pliilip Freneau, married Edward Leadbt^ater of New York. Their son- 
Edward Henry Leadbeater, born in 1822, died aged 45, was a well-known merchant 
in New York and San Francisco. He married Lucy S. Dodge, who was descended 
from Elder William Brewster, who came over in the Mayflower. The daughtei- of 
Edward H. and Lucy S. (Dodge) Leadbeati'r, Eleanor Freneau Leadbeater, married 
March 18, 1879, in New York, Lieutenant Ct>mmander J. E. Noel, U. S. Navy. 



APPENDIX C. 



We are unable to trace the connection of the following branch of the family 
with the main stem : 

Jonathan Forman, b near Freehold, N. J.. Ai)iil 25. 1775, d. near Cincinnati, 
Ohio, January 1, 1842. 

m. Mary Mott. dau. of Capt. or Col. Mott of Freehold. Children : 

1, James Mott Forman, b. April 1, 1805. 

m. . Children: 1, Samuel H. Forman, b. Dec. 19, 1849, res. Carthage, 

Ohio; 2, Mary E. Forman; 3, Clara H.: 4. Amanda. 

2, Eliza Forman. 

3, Mary Forman. 

4, Sallie Forman. 

5, John Forman; m. — . 

6, Margaret Forman. 

7, Henrietta Forman. 

8, Mary Ann Forman. 

9, Amanda Forman. 

The first four are said to have been born before the family removed to Oliio. 

John Forman, son of Jonathan, left two sons, Ephraim and Jonathan, and a 
daughter, Sarah, married to Joseph Keffey of Red Lion, Ohio. 

Samuel H. Forman (by whom this information was furnished) has one son, 
Willis D. Forman, b. Nov. 26, 1877. 



THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 149 



APPENDIX D. 

Hamilton Forman, son of John Emley B'orman, (see paragrapli 140,) married 
Mary Van Syckel, and liad a son George V. Forman, b. 1841, now (1903) President 
of the Fidelity Trust Co., of Buffalo, New York. 

George V. Forman married Martha Carter, by whom he had a son, Howaixi A. 
Forman, b. 1870. Howard A. Forman married Georgia Green, by whom he had a 
daughter, Frances, born 1894, and a younger daughter Georgia, born 1898. 



APPENDIX E. 



Justus Miles Forman, the author, born in 1875, is the son of Jonathan Miles 
Forman of Le Roy, Genesee Co., New York, and is half brother to F. W. Forman of 
Minneapolis, referred to in paragraph 37. 



APPENDIX F. 



Robert Henry Forman, eldest son of Mortimer Paul Forman (paragraph 148) 
married Emmeline J. Bray, of Kingwood, N. J., granddaughter of the famous General 
Daniel Bray, who furnished the boats that carried Washington's army across the 
Delaware. Of this marriage there are two children, Charles B. Foi-man and Mrs. 
Charles D. Alexander, both of whom reside at Attalla, Ala. 



APPENDIX G. 



Hon. William S. Forman of East St. Louis, 111., formerly member of Congress 
from niinois, and later appointed Commissit)ner of Internal Revenue by President 
Cleveland, is a son of William Benjamin Forman, who was born and brought up in 
Kentucky, most of which time he resided at Bowling Green and Mt. Sterling near 
which he has relatives now living. Besides Hon. William S. Forman, William Ben- 
jamin Forman had two other sons, Hamilton A. Forman, who is President of the 
Fourth National Bank of St. Louis, Mo., and C. M. Forman, of East St. Louis. 111. 
William Benjamin Forman was the son of Hamilton Forman, who had two other 
sons, Harrison Forman, now living at Independence, Kansas, and Richard S. Forman 
of Craig, Mo. For further information the reader is referred to section 4, of pai-a- 
graph 152. 



150 THE FORM AN GENEALOGY. 

APPENDIX H. 
A FAMILY OF WESTCHESTER CO., N. Y. 

Jacob Formiin, of Crotoii Lake, Town of Yorktown, Westchester Co., (now 
Kitchawau, N. Y.) died January 8, 1833, aged 70. His grave and that of his wife 
are in a graveyard near Sing Sing, N. Y. 

m. Jemima Ryder, d. Oct. 2, 1842, aged 76. 
Children: 
1. Sarah Forman, b. Sept. 9, 1786, m. Samuel Garrison — 8 children: Maria, 
Helen, Ann, Jane, Marion, Margaret, Cornelia, Phoebe. 

'1. Samufl Forman, b. Mch. 5, 1789, d. July 25, 1824, m. S:uah Hyatt— 3 child- 
ren: Charlotte, m. Henry Whipp: William, m. Sarah Guest, Alfred, m. 
Lucinda Willis. 

3. Mary Ann Forman, b. Sept. 6, 1791, d. Dec. 14, 1855, m. Benjamin Wright, d. 

Sept. 29, 1858 — 5 children: Ann Eliza, m. Dan C. Miller; Catharine, m. 
Abraham Miller; Susan, Charlotte, Forman and Cordelia. 

4, Fanny Forman, b. Feb. 5, 1794, d. Sept. 29, 1852, m. Michael Hynard — son: 

Michael. 

5. Barney Forman, b. May 13, 1796, d. May 26, 1860, unmarried. 

6, Eliza Forman, b. June 21, 1799, ni. Dr. liaitholomew Gedney, d. April 13, 

1850 — 2 children: 1, Eugene, m. Amy Washbuiu; 2, Ophelia, m. William 
White. 

7. William Forman, b. May 19, 1802, d. Oct. 25, 1848. m. Jane Eliza Baker, b. 

Aug. 27, 1809, d. Dec. 19, 1892—7 children (see below). 

8, Phoebe Ft»rman, b. Nov. 25, 1806, d. July 31, 1891, unmarried. 

9, Jacob R. Forman, b. Sept. 25, 1808, m. Sarah Jane Knapp — 3 children: 

Raphelia, m. Samuel Smith: Schuyler B.. m. Melissa Moger; Annie, m. 
Gilbert Thomas. 

10. Walter Glen Forman, b. April 14, 1811, d. January 31. 1895, m. 1st, Hannah 

A\'illis; m. 2d, Sarah Yale; m. 3d, Esther Haight. He lived at Croton 
Lake, Westchester Co., and had 3 children by his 1st marriage: 1, Edgar: 
2. Willis, m. Almeda Purdy, (no children): and 3, Melanchthon Turner, 
(deceased). 

William Forman, 7th child of Jacob and Jemima (Ryder) Forman, m. Jane 
Eliza Baker. 

Children: 

1, Madeline Forman. b. Jan. 8, 1833, d. June 10, 1897, m. Oct. 26, 1854, Cornelius 

F. Montross. 

2, Cornelia Forman, b. July 22. 1834, m. Dec. 16, 1851, Jesse Ryder. 

3, Irene B. Forman, b. Nov. 14, 1836, d. Dec. 25, 1891, m. Dec. 25, 1854, Josiah 

M. Purdy. 



THE FORMAN GENEALOGY. 151 

4, Frances Forman, b. June 3, 1838, d. Ang. 4, 1876, m. June 1, 1857, John 

Elliott. 

5, Horace Baker Forman, b. April 3, 1840, m. May 18, 1865, Almira Thorn. 

6, Alice Forman, b. Nov. 8, 1841, d. Dec. 29, 1861. 

7, Henry Forman, b. Feb. 4, 1845, d. Oct. 5, 1850. 

Horace Baker Forman, 5th child of William and Jane Eliza (Baker) Forman. 
residence Kitchawan, N. Y., m. Almira Thorn. 
Children: 

1, Emma Idalene Forman, b. June 1, 1866, m. Oct. 18, 1888, Charles Morgan 

Tyson, residence New York City— 4 children: Cliarles Forman Tyson, 
Margerie I. Tyson, Helen Edith Tyson, and Charles Wesley Tyson. 

2, Horace Baker Forman, Jr., b. July 17, 1868, m. 1st, Oct. 14, 1892, Lucy 

Chandlee, of Baltimore, Md., 1 child, Horace Baker Forman, 3d b. Mcli. 
4, 1894. Mrs. Lucy (Chandlee) Forman, d. June 23, 1894. H. B. Forman 
Jr., m. 2d, Elizabeth Betterton Chandlee, of Baltimore, Md., May 30. 1903. 

3, Grace Thorn Forman, b. June 1, 1874, d. July 5, 1876. 

Edgar Forman, son of Walter Glen Forman and Hannah (Willis) Forman, b. 
May 29, 1835, d. Feb. 21, 1894, resided Brooklyn, N. Y., m. June 10, 1862, Ruth 
Matthews, b. July 26, 1837. 
Children: 

1, Walter Azel Forman, b. Sept. 16, 1863, owns the family homestead, 100 acres 

at Croton Lake, Westchester Co., N. Y., (now Kitchawan, N. Y.) m., Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1889, Ellen Lee Foster— children: 1, Chester Edgar 
Forman, b. Mch. 19, 1891, d. Nov. 10, 1891; 2, Howard Lee Forman, b. 
Apr. 15, 1890; 3, Helen Elizabeth, d. an infant; 4, Walter Wilbur Forman, 
b. June 13, 1900. 

2, Arthur Willis Forman, b. Feb. 27, 1865, m. Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 27, 1888, 

Henrietta Clay Baldwin — child: Harold Baldwin Forman, b. Apr. 15, 1890. 

3, Frederick Peet Forman, b. July 24, 1867. 

4, Esther Matilda Forman. 



ERRATA, ETC. 

1. Page 28, line 14 from bottom, for "Plantation" read "Plantations." 

2. Page 41, paragraph 11, it is stated that Hon. E. P. Dismukes is now Presi- 
dent of a bank in Columbus, Ga. This is an error, as he is not now president of a 
bank. 

3. Page 42, paragraph 11, the statement that Robert Ernest Dismukes is now 
a student at the law school of Harvard University, should be changed to read thai- 
he graduated at the law school of Harvard University, in June, 1903. 

4. Page 57, middle of page, for "Captain Richard Sweltenham" read "Captain 
Richard Swettenham." 




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